Early summer morning looking east towards the station. This mist you see is yet another fog bank rolling in to envelop the station during the summer months. The photograph was taken from the existing helipad, which once was the foundation of the original station, washed away by a storm in 1948.
This is a Sikorsky S-61. The largest helicopter that the Canadian Coast Guard has in its fleet. It seats 10 passengers and has a crew of 3. The helicopter is the major workhorse on the coast for hauling freight, groceries, mail, and lifting heavy loads to lightstations. It is also used for search and rescue on the north coast.
This gravestone was the first project that I helped out on as a new lightkeeper. It weights about 90 to 100 pounds, and is made of solid concrete. The letters of the name and dates are cut from 3/4 inch plywood and set into the wet concrete. The recipient of this marker was a lightkeeper named Laurie Dupuis. He died by his own hand in May of 1953, at the age of 34. A mistaken punctuation mark in a message alluded to his family not wanting to return to him and their way of life.
