By this time, people in Fox Harbour were getting pretty worried and there were people out looking for us. There were motorboats and speedboats from Fox Harbour, Indian Cove and Battle Harbour out searching for us. We said thank-you to Dave, left Spear Harbour and headed home. We were going up along shore when we came across the first speedboat that was looking for us. They were sure glad to see that we were ok. They headed back and told the other boats they had found us. The Coast Guard in Goose Bay were just getting ready to leave when they found us.

We made it home safe and sound without any trouble. We were all glad to be home after the night we had just had. That was a very hard and frightening night, one I will not forget for a long time.

One year in the Fall during the early 1970's I fished with my father, Earl Poole, in Murray's Harbour. It was November and we had just shipped the last of our herring. The herring boat left that evening and we decided we would get ready and shift up to Fox Harbour the next day. In Murray's Harbour at that time of the year there was not very many people left in the harbour. Our family was left and so was Uncle Gordon Penney's family, my uncle Nelson Poole and his common-law wife, Josephine Chubbs, were also left in Murray's Harbour. The rest of the people had already shifted up to Fox Harbour.

The next morning when I woke up there was a vicious sea. We were in no hurry to go to Fox Harbour so we decided to wait a couple of days for the sea to go back. We waited a couple of days and pretty soon a couple of days had stretched into thirteen days. There was no let up in it. By this time we were getting really low on food. I would say we only had enough food for another day or two. My father said, "We can't wait any longer. We are going up to Fox Harbour today." So we packed up all of our stuff and got ready to go to Fox Harbour.

Uncle Nelson Poole was also running very low on food. Father asked him if he wanted to go up to Fox Harbour with him. Uncle Nelson thought dad was mad to go anywhere in such a sea. Dad had his mind made up and he was going with or without Uncle Nelson. Eventually Uncle Nelson gave in to the idea of shifting up in such a sea. He figured two boats were better than one in case there was any trouble.

So we all got ready and loaded up the two motorboats. Now mother wasn't having any part of going around Spear Point in such a storm. So mom, my sister, Irene, and Josephine walked over to Spear Harbour, which was about half an hours walk from Murray's Harbour. I got in a motorboat with Uncle Nelson and my sister, Shirley, got in a motorboat with dad.

Before I can go any further with the story I must tell you about the many shoals located around Murray's Harbour. Murray's Harbour is a good place for catching fish but when a sea is on Murray's Harbour is one of the scariest and dangerous places on the Labrador coast.

Murray's Harbour has two tickles; the big tickle and the small one which is called Lamb's Tickle. Lamb's Tickle is a shoal and when a sea is on that shoal breaks and a boat can't pass through it. The big tickle has no shoal, but a shoal called the Scab breaks right into the mouth of the tickle.