Blanc Sablon to Port Hope, Labrador

Unloaded from the ferry and headed north.Navigation not a big issue since there is only one road and it only goes one direction.The road was paved for about 25 miles to Red Bay, then became gravel.This will be the last pavement we will see for at least the next 4 days. The landscape on Labrador is dramatic and different from what we just left behind in Nfld.The terrain is rolling hills with few trees and very rocky...little rocks, big rocks and every size in between. Small bushes huddle close to the ground trying to hide from the incessant cold winds.Is labrador beautiful? Yea,probably, but other words come to mind first, like isolated, wild, desolate, maybe even forbidding.I have never seen anything quite like it even on the Arctic circle in the Yukon. The ground itself is definitely arctic tundra.soft and spongey underfoot and covered with moss and scattered tiny wild flowers trying to see a little action before winter returns in a few short weeks. People live here, a few anyway and manage a living fishing or cutting timber.Some cater to hunters and sport fisherman coming from U.S. and other parts of Canada and to crazy motorcyclist like ourselves.The road system is sparse and only about 30 miles of it is paved...boog