The Wait

Well today is the day I head off on vacation. So the wait begins as normal on the lights. You book your time off well in advance and then pray that there has been no changes to the chopper schedule or the weather will get bad. One must remember that the weather has to be clear or atleast flyable all the way to either Port Hardy or Prince Rupert. And the last few days it has been either fog somewhere or very low cloud levels. So it is 5 AM and I am up and have morning coffee to an overcast day so far.

If I get lucky the chopper will be out of the hanger at 10Am , hour and half to here then off to Bella Bella for fuel and then a hour if lucky to Hardy. So if all goes as planned I would starting off from there at 2 in the afternoon. So I will not make it all the way to Vancouver as it is a from there on a good drive day 7 hours to Namino and then the ferry. The last one is at 9 PM so that means I would get in to Vancouver rather late oh well. So looking like a overnighter some where and then finish the trip the next day. This is one of the not so nice things about here getting on and off. We all know that weather and a broken chopper will set us back but on a good day we are still doing the old hurry up and wait. I will be gone for a month or so .. Here is hoping I will be near a computer to leave a note.. Well off to see about morning weather further down the coast and more Coffee!!!! Have a good day ,, wk , month chat with you all Later from the Bluff