CHUCK AT OCEAN FALLS

LOCAL CHARACTER AND BROTHER IN LAW

OCEAN FALLS

FOG MOVING IN AT OCEAN FALLS
Ocean Falls is a community of 50 people, in the summer time! :) At one time there was a very large paper mill here that many years ago closed down. Now the city is actually a ghost town, with buildings that are falling apart and a few people wandering around. About a mile down the road from the dock is where the people live, mostly people trying to make this into a summer destination for vacation homes. This is also located at the deadend of a very long fiord. There is an electrical generation facility here which is enough to power a small town, but instead supplies power to 50 people and then there are transmission lines going about 15 miles to an indian community of a few hundred. The Ocean Falls Power Plant! The weather here was drizzly but not too cold. The winds were calm, and then our second night here (yes we stayed two nights)a fierce wind of over 40 knots came out of nowwhere rocking our boat and ripping our flag. Not predicted and not expected. I always tie the boat very well, and was I ever glad I did. One hour later it was calm again. Very strange.