The second sealift ship of the season arrived yesterday, and it will hang around for two or three more days offloading cargo, and taking on construction equipment destined for Iqaluit (I believe). This morning dawned snowy and grey, but that won't slow down the bustle of activity down at shore.
I've often compared the sealift arrival to a circus. It is a site to behold with loaders stacking crates and containers from the barges on shore, other loaders hauling them away to their destinations, people and children milling about, checking to see which crates is theirs or who got that new truck/boat/snowmobile. I've always found it exciting, although none can compare to the first one. This is my tenth sealift season and I haven't yet tired of them.
We've nothing on this ship. We were supposed to have stuff on the last one but it wasn't delivered to the port. Incredibly, in this busiest shipping season yet, there is another sealift ship coming the first week in October, and our groceries ("Dear I'm popping over to the Marche to pick up $7,000 worth of groceries, do you want anything?") and tires for my poor disabled truck should be on that one. They had better be on that one.
I've heard that there is another ship arriving next week, but I'm not sure what that is about.
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Take a big shopping cart. 🙂
Kia ora Clare,
You remind us how easy most of us out here have to obtain the butter, toilet paper, ect. ect., we just ran out of. Not exactly a corner store around for you there!
Have a great day.
Ka kite,
Robb
Hey Dave,
I need to find a shopping cart as the tires for mine are on the ship the groceries arrive on.
Actually Robb, personal sealift is more about economy than anything else. We have two stores here, and as long as the planes arrive we’ve got a not bad selection considering where we are. Much of both stores dry goods arrive by the sealift, as does anything else that needs coming. For instance when we built the House, everything, from nails to toilets, even the kitchen sinks (four) had to come by boat.
We end up with significant savings by ordering much of our dry goods by sealift. The savings on Leah’s pop alone more than paid for the shipping costs for our entire sealift (which will come in about $1000 plus crating of another $1000).
unfortunately, we might not be getting ours..i hope we can work around it..