Halifax, Nova Scotia was enveloped in a blizzard when I disembarked from the M/S Lundefjell in February 1969. I had rarely seen, felt, played in or hated snow until I emigrated to Canada. They do good snow in Canada
Category: Prospecting
Related to my mineral exploration years
Ox Head and Other Tools
All professional folk have their favorite tools. Nowadays the tools of choice seems to be notepad computers, GPS units, IPhones and Blackberry PDAs with Bluetooth flashing ear pieces. I rather like my ancient cell phone. The cell is pain to text message with because I have to hit each key up to 6 times to…
Red Faced, Ketchup Kid
It was early summer, 1969 and I was flying with our chopper pilot to our next project site in Ontario. Below, we spotted the rest of the crew in our huge International Harvester crew cab truck (adorned with its characteristic EM birds) turning into a service station/motel/restaurant on the Trans-Canada Highway. It was time for…
Fun: Fish, Fowl, Float, Fire
1969: summer evenings at bush camps in northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba were long and lazy. And if the helicopter or geophysical instrumentation was acting up, the Scintrex geophysics crew I was a part of, played. There was little to do other than read, swim in the lake, play Monopoly, eat and fish. Fish abounded in…