Zeballos

Well we have had an aircraft and Marine warning for the Zeballos area. We are not to visit until further notice. Here is a picture of the "road" to Zeballos good luck getting in via road. It sounds like the town of Zeballos is looking at getting a barge from Victoria to bring in food to the area since they are basically cut off. There are of course people did get stuck out of the community and the others are stuck in the community. I guess I will play it by ear to see if I go out next week.

Egress Part 3

Now comes the start of the hard work. Getting into a lifeboat....Now there comes a point where a persons hands and limbs are to cold to get them selves into the lifeboat and here is how the people in the boat help....

Escaping from the "Plane" through a window....

here is the simulator that straps us to the seat of a plane....

Now you have to escape through the door, remembering to grab your life jacket on the way out.

 

Egress training part 2

Okay everyone in the water and now grab a life jacket.Now inflate the life jacket

Another group hug

A group hug while keeping someone afloat who is injured

Now get into lines an paddle to shore but only if the shore is close.

Are we having fun yet??????. the hard stuff we are still getting to.
 

Aviation Egress training PT 1

Look at all the crazy people who don't know what they signed up for. We are just learning some of the possible causes of a float plane crash.

Now we are at the pool in a group hug. Okay there is a reason for this....when wet (and in really cold water) staying warm is important and the more people together the warmer you are in theory...

The next two photos are of us learning about the apparatus's we are about to use in the water.

 

September 17, 2010

This week was kind of interesting at work. It started out on Monday with conservation officers on the reservation near Gold River when we got to work at 7:45 am. They ended up shooting 3 or 4 bears that have been a nuisance on the reservation for weeks now. I guess they finally did something after someone got "attacked". Apparently a bear hit a person who was fishing. There are still bears roaming the town of Gold River, there is also a cougar roaming the town as well. I have seen the bears, not the cougar (yet).

Well it's now the end of August and it is cold and raining. Well at least we can't complain about the fact we are dying of heat in our offices. We don't mind the cooler temperatures but what's with the rain? I guess we kind of need it for the forests as we did not get much rain to speak of over the summer and the forests are really dry. Now that the summer is over hopefully life will get back to more routine, not that it hasn't been routine for the summer. Once school is back in the pool will open again and I can get back to swimming 3-5 days a week. Hopefully we will get the walking program up and running that we wanted to do over the summer but with the high temperatures we didn't do more than a few times. Anyway I should get back to work.

August 16 2010

Well I started this blog almost a year ago. There are days in which I don't know why I stay and others that I can actually answer the question why stay?

Right now it is really quiet in the office as the camp-out is still happening and most people are not here (on reserve). I find that there are days that despite my best efforts I can't seem to get what I want to get done finished. Other days I can. Especially when trying to help people. Whether it's helping get equipment or just checking their vitals. I find that there is never enough thanks given to any of the nursing/ or support staff. Anyway I guess we do the job not expecting thank-yous but they are nice to get when people do recognize our work.

It has been 3 years since I started working for the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council as of August 7 2010. According to what some of the community members say, that is one year longer than the non-aboriginal nurses stay. Well someone had to prove their theory wrong. (that I would leave after 2 years). Some say I'm one of them.. who knows what others think of me. But do I care?.... Well kind of..... Anyway I can't please everyone. Anyway lets see what the next year has in store for the travelling I do on the west coast with this job.