Wednesday, March 22, 2006

the queen of the north.......


A couple of years ago I took a long, overnight boat trip on "The Queen of The North" from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy, through the inside passage down the coast of Northern British Colombia. It was a beautiful, scenic trip despite the increasingly drizzly weather - down through the uninhabited & mystical islands of the BC coast.

The ship was a bit rickety, practically empty & when we hit open water tossed around like a rubber duck in a bath tub - i remember hardly sleeping in my tiny cabin as we lurched about in the darkness.

Imagine my suprise then to read the news this morning of the fate of this ship!

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