On th road again

I am currently sitting in Halifax Airport, waiting for my flight to Toronto, from thete I'll be heading to Winnipeg and staying there for the night. Tomorrow I'll be heading for Waboden MB by road. I'll stay overnight there then go up to Lynn Lake, it looks like there is about 2 weeks of work up there.

Lewis in His New Bed

Well here he is, installed in his new bed. The bed seems to serve it's purpose, We can get all his toys and chest of draws under the bed and him on top of the bed. The computer and desk fit nicely at the end of the bed. There is plenty of floor space for laundry 

Kub Kar race 2006

Today Lewis took part in the regional Kub Kar race. The race was held in the village mall. Her you see the 4 tracks and all the cubs and parents watching the races. 

The Bed with ladder

Now Lewis' bed has a ladder, I took this photo just before moving all the junk in under the bed. 

Lewis' Bed

Well after almost a year I have completed Lewis' loft bed. The design was modified from one I sae in a magazine. I made it mostly of economy grade 2x4 lumber which I planed down to about 1 1/2 x 3. It is all held together by lagg bolts. All I need to do now is figure out how to build a ladder. 

Capreol Lake

Well I am back from Sudbury now, I don't have many pix to show for it. Here is one, a view from on top of one of the small hills in the area where we were working. The yellow cylinder is the surface coil, it is basically an antenna for out Pulse EM system.
As you can see there are no large trees in this area, that is because over the last 100 years they were all poisoned by SO2 comming from the smelting opperations. In the 70s the built a massive smoke stack to make the SO2 someone elses problem. Vegetation has returned, but it is a slow process because the soils are thin and contaminated. 

Sudbury

Well after a day In Marathon I job came up in Sudbury, so I got on the road again. It took me another day to drive to Sudbury. We have a large area to survey here, to loop is 1X1.6 km with 16.5 km of lines we have to survey. I expect to be here for at least two weeks. Sudbury hasn't inspired me to take any photos yet. I might get out some night and try to get some of the smoke stacks.

Still Driving

Well on the way from Winniprg to Marathon stuff started to look familiar. I took a shot of this view in the autumn, so as I passed again, I thought I'd get a winter one too. 

Leaving Winnipeg

Well I have found WIFI in a corner of my room, by the bathroom door, so I can blogg from the comfort of my hotell room.
This shot was taken after I left winnipeg. It was so flat there! they say if your dog runs away you can still see it 3 days later. 

Tom's Image Blog

Sorry no now pix recently, I have been without a good internet connection. I hopw to post some stuff soon
Cheers.

Where am I ?

Today I am in Winnipeg, just got in after a 700km drive from Thompson, it was a long drive on very straight roads. I thought you might be interested to see my path on a map, so here it is. there are 3 legs, the final, from Winnipeg to Marathon is what I'll be doing tomorrow. It is close to 1000km, so will take most of that day. I'll try and stop in some places worth photographing. 

Me

This was also taken yesterday. Just to show that I am working here, Here I am with the receiver. The Yellow wire is the replacment sync antenna we made after 3 of the propper antennas failed. The odd stance is because I am waring snow shoes.
Thanks to Morgan for taking this shot. 

Frosty morning in Lynn Lake

Here is another shot of the Head frame at the Farley mine in Lynn Lake. This was taken yesterday morning after the ice fog had cleared. Everything was covered in about 1cm of frost. 

Sundown at the Farley mine

Working late this evening, got this shot just bofore I packed up and went home. 

Who would have thought it, all that messing around with antennas finally paid off. Here is a the sync antenna we rigged up. Our receiver and transmitter need to synchronised, there are several ways to do that and for this job we are using radio sync, so we required an antenna. Initially we had the antenna standing on the ground, but this only gave us about 200m range, which wasn't enough. We searched around and found a big metal water pipe in a scrap pile and rigged it up with some wire to lift the antenna about 12 feet off the ground. We boosted our range to about 800m.  

The Farley Mine, Lynn Lake Manitoba. In the foreground is some of the waste rock, you can see that even this discarded rock is quite mineralized. the old headframs stands abandoned in the distance. The ramp on the left goes down into the old underground workings, which are now flooded. We are surveying on this site to see if we can find and deposits that have previousley been missed. It would be nice to find enough to allow this mine to reopen and breath some life back into this town.  

Lynn Lake

Here is a shot of the main street in Lynn Lake Manitoba. As you can see it is mostly boarded up. 

Here is an image from Waboden Manitoba. These trees were weighed down with frozen spray from a waterfall. It was about -20C, a warm day aparently. 

Greenland

Back in Newfoundland now, we took the long way around, via Greenland. I took a few photos, but the window was badly scratched. This view is of the west coast before we headed out over the Labrador sea. 

Greenland

Back in Newfoundland now, we took the long way around, via Greenland. I took a few photos, but the window was badly scratched. This view is of the east coast of greenland with it's fjords and some iceburgs in the ocean.