Can't post a photo Gavin, but I have one of your new book, pre-ordered, being used as my new mouse pad. You've come up in the world from Uncle Grumpy using pages of Chasing Awe, as his "S&*T Tickets" to your latest edition occupying the heady heights of being a mouse pad. Well done sir your photography has certainly improved! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Seriously, I have to take another dig, your two fine books share a shelf with Thomas Heaton and Nigel Danson. However, you all share the shelves with my father Lyle's books, and my Weston, Adams, Minor White, Imogen Cunningham, Lang, Bresson, Brandt, Caponigro Sr. books, among others. I happily added several of your prints to the Paul Bongé Collection, so you're hanging out with the likes of Aaron Siskind, Minor White & Walter Chapell among others. All this silly aggrandizement aside, I'm happy to say that I look forward always to your next post and adventures. BTW, all this flattery is only to see if you'll read it as I really just wanted to say hi to "Amanda the Peerless". Take care you two and all the very best.

Best book ever written maybe, pity the photos let the side down though….😉

Fyi, It's not a shack, It's a fishing stage!

😂 Thanks for the hint. I was totally focused on Gavin and didn’t see it. Brent is a gem 💎.

I totally agree! And that‘s why we go to NF in 8 weeks for the second time. I don‘t have such a hightech camera like Gavin, just a LX100II, but it will do for my amateur photos. Thanks to Gavin for this video!

LOLOL! I doubt think Chrissy or Roy are poverty-stricken. They both have government pensions, I would think. He was a high school teacher and she was an elemetary school teacher and, later, public librarian, not professionally trained.

i imagine the icebergs in the area cool the air down a lot. What date was it 2 degrees C.? I was on Fogo Island from early September 1976 to mid-June 1977 and I don't recall it being that cool. I was at a end of year party at Roy and Chrissy's house in Tilting just before the end of the school year and I did have a wool sweater with me, but I wasn't wearing it. We were outside a fair bit and it was a warm evening. I accidentally forgot my sweater at the house and had to go back for it. If it had been cold enough to wear a heavy Aran knit sweater I wouldn't have forgotten it, would I?

@@dinkster1729 I didn't experience that 2C temp. It's in this video.

@@jimsmith556 I wonder where these people are from. When were they on Fogo Island? May? I can't recall wearing winter gear in 1977's spring at all. The winters are definitely no colder than southeastern Ontario's. Maybe, icebergs and floating ice made this spring colder than I was there when there was no ice impeding ferry travel.

I remember the head of the science dept who was from St John's remembered my ex-boyfriend because he was at his school. He told me my ex-boyfriend was very peculiar because he wore a trench coat and rode a bike in St John's. I must admit I didn't see many bikes when I was in St John's at university and I never saw one in an outport, but, maybe, these days on the flatter areas of St John's, they are more common because they have more gears and go more quickly than the old CCM I had in the '60s.

By the way, there are no skunks in Newfoundland so I doubt that there are skunks on Fogo Island unless someone imported them to the island and who would do that? I remember i was visiting a family when I was a teacher in Hatchet Cove, T.B., N.L. in 1970 and we heard a noise under the house. I suggested to the mother that there might be a skunk under the house when she suggested that it might be a cat. She looked at me puzzled and said, "What's a skunk?" That's when I found out that there are no skunks in Newfoundland.

They are not called shacks. They are called stores and fishermen store their gear in them and repair their nets and so forth in them. With the collapse of the cod fishery in 1992, they probably aren't used much today so the bridge to the stores don't have to be mended now.

I agree-that one has a bit more drama.

It must have been a very cold spring in Fogo. I don't recall wearing my winter coat late into the year at all. I went to school in my cords and blouse and maybe, wore a sweater occasionally.

thanks for the kind words John ;)

@@fototripper Meant every word! Hope to see you and Amanda in California someday photographing our beautiful coast.

I'd love to but cannot afford first class flights.

We filmed some content for our course and he insisted on wearing it for his confidence.

The winters on Fogo are not much colder than in southern Ontario. The fall and the spring last longer though. There isn't much summer and the ocean is always icy. Blueberries are harvestable in September on Fogo whereas in northern Ontario even north of 7 in Frontenac County close to where I live, they are harvested in July. I spent a few days on the Grey Islands in late July of 1977. I'd say the temperature was about 70 degrees F. and the nights weren't cold. We teachers learning about outdoor education slept in tents with a fairly warm sleeping bag, nothing exceptionally warm was needed.

Henderson. Sadly no channel. Brent has a life ;)