The day starts out with blue skies but this could change as
we have come to realize. We have a nice
breakfast as the others in the B and B start their day. We don’t see Kevin as he has already headed
off to work.
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| View of the Lakeview Inn |
The agenda for the day is a light one, Dawson is going to head
out to the mine for a tour and Julie and Roma will have a day hanging out in
Millertown. Our B and B; the Lakeview
Inn, has a beautiful veranda overlooking Red Indian Lake, so we start our day
having coffee looking out at the lake.
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| View from the Lakeview Inn |
The mine is about a 30 minute drive from Millertown and the tour is set to start at 12 so Dawson has time for a run. Dawson runs around Millertown twice for a total of 6 kilometers.
At 11:15 Dawson heads out to the mine, he has a surface indoctrination
and U/G indoctrination scheduled for 12 and 12:45. The mine is fairly new having been opened in
2006, and is mining a copper, zinc deposit.
Dawson arrives at 11:45 having had a very uneventful drive; the road is
quite good as the mine is shipping concentrate out on it. The surface indoc. is well done and Dawson is
over at the mine office by 12:30. Dawson
meets up with Kevin and he introduces me to Trevor Windsor, who will give the
u/g indoc. Turns out Dawson will also
tour with Trevor, as Kevin has a planning meeting he has to attend. The mine is in excellent shape which is apparent
from the condition of the ramp as we head down.
The mining industry proves once again that it is a small world as it
turns out Trevor is cousins with a mechanic Dawson had worked with before. Once the tour is over Dawson heads over to
see Lewis Patey who is the Maintenance Super here at Duck Pond who he had
worked with in Sudbury. Once Kevin’s work day is done we head over to take a
look at the two small pits Teck is mining.
All and all a good day at the mine.
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| Julie reading placque while fending off the black flies |
We get back to Millertown around 6 to find out what Roma and
Julie got up to. Both spent the day
relaxing, starting out on the Lakeview’s veranda but got chased in by black
flies. They headed over to Kevin’s to see about
de-lobstering the house and watched some of the Roger’s Cup. Roma then read for the afternoon and Julie
did some blogging.
The four of us have dinner at the B and B and then head out
to look at another Millertown tourist attraction, the beach at Indian
Point.
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| Kevin at Indian Point |
Indian Point was a common wintering location of the Beothuk Indian tribe. It was the location of one of the many confrontation between the early settlers and the Indians. Before heading over to the point we call Ross as he has just returned to Canada from his European running tour. He had completed in the World’s University Games in Russia, and then competed in 4 other races in Finland, Sweden, and Belgium. His results are good and we are very proud of Ross. He then took in a week of vacation along the coast of Croatia. Bravo Ross!
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| Roma emerging from a birchbark teepee |
The visit to Indian point is good although somewhat hampered
by the blackflies. We are back at the
Lakeview Inn around 9 and play some bridge for an hour or so. Roma is much better at it than us, but we are improving.
Cheers
Dawson and Julie
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