Labrador City Adventure: Our Cabin

We are now the proud owners of a cabin on Ashuanipi River! It is very common for Newfie's to own a cabin but most people are surprised that some Aussies now have a cabin too. I saw it for sale on the Labrador City Virtual Flea Market and suggested to Steve that we check it out. A week later we are the new owners.

We had our first night at the cabin last weekend, we spent Saturday morning shopping for some essentials, such as new linen, and then Saturday afternoon we tidied up a bit so could enjoy our BBQ dinner and rest on Sunday. The cabin has two bedrooms, a bathroom, living room and kitchen and is very comfortable. It came with everything in it including a generator shed and generator, with a remote start inside the cabin, a very full wood shed, a shed for the skidoo and an outhouse.

We also had our first visitors on Sunday, Jeff and Simone (recently arrived from Karratha) called in, as well as Leighann and Richard and their three boys. The kids had a great time mucking around outside.

Ashuanipi River is about 60km away from our house towards Churchill Falls. The road has only been paved in the last few years and our cabin is on a dirt track along the river, about 2km in. In fact, we are right before the train line and can see the iron ore trains from our cabin! The train has to sound it's horn because of the road crossing, it is very loud but I only heard it twice on Saturday night and no one else stirred at all. Just like Dale Kerrigan says in The Castle "Location, Location, Location". No really it's not that bad and there are other cabins nearby too!