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TRAVEL
Veruca Vasquez Visits Stubble Island, NFLD
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As a young impressionable girl in my teens my parents and I would make our annual trip
from Toronto to Newfoundland each year. We had cousins living in Playcenter Bay at the time.
Occasionally when we were not hanging out fish to dry or boiling potato's we would get a
boat and ride out to Stubble Island with my Uncle Kenny.
Stubble Island was the jewel in
the bay. Ice cream parlours, sandy beaches, golf courses, casino's and 5-star hotels. Boy was it
heaven!
Jobeys Hotel is where we'd stay. I had fond memories of that place. Which reminds me, I
got lucky with a cook in the kitchens one afternoon while he was fondling my home made buns.
Anyway here I am some twenty years later and how things have changed! The Island has been
deserted ever since a freak 1000ft tidal wave swallowed it up during Mummering Sunday ten years ago.
The Island however is still very much agreat weekend getaway. You can pick your way through the ruins, marvel at the howling
winds whistling through the broken windows. Watch puffins mate in nooks and crannies wipe Seagul splat out of your eyes
and wrestle to secure your tent on top of hopelessly barren rocks.
For $500 my Uncle Kenny does
the seven mile boat ride to the Island and for another $500 will bring you back again.
The Stubble Island Experience is open all year round but access is not. Bring warm clothes,
alcohol and tinned food to make your stay a welcome one.
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LEISURE
Vacations In The Atlantic.
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Live the life on a deep sea oil rig. Your Chinook Helicopter awaits to wisk you off on a voyage
to the middle of the Atlantic ocean. A voyage to experience life on board a condemned Oil
Platform!
Hotel Rig that boasts sixteen bedrooms and a fully licensed restaurant / bar was bought for $1.00
back in 1998 after fifteen years of legal wrangles between Canada's heavy weight Oil
companies Serving Oil and Petrol Can.
The Rig built in 1970 was shut down after a series of undersea earthquakes caused
one of it's legs to collapse. Resulting in it being condemned to the savage seas.
Then in 1999 Millionaire
businessman Teddy Bear bought the rig and donated a couple of steel jacks to right it's crippled leg, added some
housekeeping units and a duty free shop. After a couple of months using the rig to sell arms and narcotics on the black
market it was open for business.The old housekeeping units and 'duty free' shop has now been renovated into a museum.
Come spend a week with us! Enjoy the surf, high seas and experience first hand diving and
maitenance aboard our very own Hotel Rig!
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