What I saw this morning
I woke up this morning to let the dog out to do her morning “business” and saw this…….
Etienne told me yesterday that a ship was coming in. Apparently it is the NSSI Sealift that came from Montreal. I have never seen such a large ship so close. This ship brought mostly building supplies into town. We were told that they bring “houses in a can”. Essentially everything they need to build a house is in the Sea-Cans. I figured I’d snap a picture so my southern friends/family can see one too. I can’t believe how close it can get to shore. I didn’t think the water dropped that quickly. I learned something new. I was excited to see this as our food will come on an actual barge pulled by a tug boat. So this is the last time we’ll see a ship until next year. Our barge order is due to arrive on October 6th. We’re still patiently waiting for that day to come. Etienne took me to the part of town that the barge was actually bringing all the items to shore. They load all the items onto a “Barge” and a tugboat pulls it to shore. It was really windy today and they barge was being blown around quite a bit. Once the items are on shore they actually delivered the Sea-Cans to their destination. Below are pictures that I was able to take.
Barge and Tugboat waiting to be unloaded at shore
Sea-Cans waiting to be delivered
You can see the blue Sea-Can being carried up the road by a forklift
Tugboat and barge heading out to pick up the second load.
The tugboat heading back to shore with it's second load of the day
In other news, Etienne talked to Calm Air this morning and our household stuff is due to start arriving in Churchill tomorrow. This means we should start receiving boxes this week. It will come in mulitple shipments, so we don’t know how long it’s going to take to get it all here. I don’t care, all I care is that it’s starting to arrive!! YIPPEE!!
We also have growth!! Our aerogarden is already starting to sprout. So far our Basil, Thyme and Oregano have started to grow!
The Basil starting to come up....
Basil....
Can you see the Thyme in there?
I guess that Aerogarden is true to their word!! The basil was due to sprout in 3 – 7 days and today is the 4th day. I’m excited to be able to take the domes off and hopefully start smelling the wonderful herbs in our house.
That’s all I have for now…..
wooohooo the aerogarden is looking good!! hey what do they do with the sea can’s after they are unloaded with the goods, does the ship wait around and have them loaded back on?
When we were in Africa it was really interesting that they actually use the sea cans as “business offices/stores” they would set up hair salons/cellphone dealerships/minimarts in the sea can and sell their products/services from them on the side of the road!! they said it was because it’s too expensive to get rid of them/destroy them so they just sell them to the citizens who turn them into their businesses!!
The ship doesn’t wait around, but we do believe that when the containers are empty they got back to 1 central location and the ship will pick them up next year. That would be quite the sight…..Sea-Can’s all over the street with businesses operating out of them. It is a great idea though.
Great pictures! Exciting news about fresh herbs!!!
We are very excited……Here’s hoping they actually grow well enough to eat them!