A Very Interesting Day

Port Hardy - June 23rd

It has been raining since we arrived yesterday morning. There was one small break in the rain yesterday afternoon when Jim and I took a walk into the downtown area of Port Hardy. It is only about a 20 minute walk. With my ankle 20 minutes is plenty.  It's that hard pavement the especially does me in. 

This morning my iPhone died -- dead!  So - what to do. We needed the phone. Jim has an old flip phone with no real value except emergency type calls. 

Searching for the nearest Telus store --  I thought there would be one in Prince Rupert -- we found one here in Port Hardy!  

We called and they had the iPhone 6s and I had one put away. We took a cab to the store -  it would have been a long walk in the rain. 

Seems Telus had made some changes in their available plans and the new phone would require a new plan - which would be $90 a month instead of $60 plus the cost of the phone. Plus the amount of data I currently get was no longer an option -- and so on and so on. 

So we were sort of chatting with the young man who was helping us. -- I thought maybe just buying a new iPhone 5s - no -- he didn't think that would be good value.  He says -  could it be your battery is dead??  Certainly could be. It had be losing charge very quickly as of late.  For $50 he could put in a new battery - he wasn't a trained Apple tech so it wouldn't be guaranteed. I figured for $50 it was worth a try. 

It was worth $50.00 just to watch him work!  He brightened up - got out his little collection of special tools - some of which he made himself. Telling us all about  what he was doing.  He had made a little stand to hold the phone in a certain position as he took out various minuscule screws. He had a special little suction cup contraption to separate the phone. He used a heat gun to loosen the dead battery.  We watched as he gently took the phone apart.  And he carefully replaced the battery and put the phone all back together - like nothing had ever been done to it.  He could be an orthopaedic surgeon! 

He says he taught himself how to do that. And he was just full of knowledge about all sort of things. I wish I could have taken a photo. It was amazing to watch him!  He reminded us of Eric. 

And... The phone is back on and working!  Yay!!

While we waited for the phone to start charging we had lunch at A&W and spent $17.00 on Smarties at Save On Foods. 

When we got back Jim took Jenny for a walk in the rain. Everyone required full rain gear! 

We decide to have dinner at the Quarterdeck Pub right by the marina.  It was - ok. As we were eating dinner we watched the all the firemen from the volunteer fire department doing some sort of a drill at the marina. Very interesting to watch. 

There were all kinds of other interesting sites we observed -- too bad I didn't have my camera!  

We had a bit of a concern about the guy in the sailboat across from us - the Webasto has been running all day and we hadn't seen him at all.  We mentioned it to the fire department and the Harbour staff as we were coming back from dinner. We had knocked on his window - Webasto still running. He did come out - I guess all is well!   I feel bad we disturbed him but I was a bit worried. I think he was confused by the fuss!  

The marina is full of derelict boats. They are a sad sight to see.  There is a trimaran tied up next to us that is in a bad way.  

There are number of old fishing boat that have been left to rot at the dock. 

And on top of all that -- it has been raining steady all day. Wet - wet - wet.  We are thinking of leaving tomorrow but it's hard to get motivated to do anything in the rain.