Where to even begin…..
Since we are all experiencing social distancing with covid-19 our plans have to be put on hold until all of this is under control!
We are feeling disappointed but have to follow protocol and make sure everyone stays safe, that is our main priority.
Should August roll around and covid-19 has taken a back seat we will reassess our plans, until then we all wait and watch and hope for this to be over soon.
In the meantime we are prepping our F150 for future trips, we now have a slide installed, which is awesome! Next we have to analyze the space and see what we want to put where!
We will have battery packs, inverter and solar panels set up for the Bundutec and fridge to run off , we will have more details on that coming up.
We are considering putting in a low profile snomaster instead of the regular one, so we can access the inside of the fridge a little easier.
We have a water tank we used in our trailer which i think we may move over to the truck. It holds a good amount of water for our needs. Eco temp will be hooked up for instant hot water. These units are an absolute god send!
Then the stove i think for now we will keep as a separate unit, ie. not attach to the truck on a swivel as previously thought, this way we can literally move it anywhere.
Our bundutec roof top tent stores all our sleeping gear inside when closed so no need to worry about space for bedding and pillows, easy breezy!
The rest of the gear we still have to decide how to stash neatly and efficiently.
That is about it to date, now when we will actually get out to use the gear is another story 🙂
So lets get rid of the virus, stay safe everyone and keep social distancing so we can hit the trails once more!
However this was not the end of our adventure …as we arrived in Moncton it was about 8pm and we thought we would settle for a hotel instead of setting up camp, this was not to be though all the hotels AND campsites were fully booked! Unbeknownst to us there was a cfl game in Moncton and everything was booked up right up to Amherst! Now this is why we have a rigs for overlanding!
Once we returned to the boat to go to the next island we were greeted by our very enthusiastic young captain who had fished out a Sea Urchin with a mop with double handles!! He had cut it open for us to taste. Surprisingly enough they are very sweet not like anything you would expect, not fishy at all. Sadly we discovered we were actually eating the reproductive organs of the sea urchins. The Japanese believe them to be a great aphrodisiac and are highly valued! Peter was trying to convince us that were eating sea urchin poop, before we figured out what our captain was actually saying….although he was the first one to try it and quite enthusiastically too.
Heading back we started looking for a camp site for the night, the wind was howling and beach sand was flying.
Stopped at an Natashquan (means where one hunts for bear) another small village population of about 265. We went into the “liquor” store to fuel up 😂 although these stores carry literally everything. I ran to snap this sign which was pretty cool, getting sand blasted in the process from the flying beach sand.
