Eddie's Cove II
Eddie's Cove II / 10x10 THE AMAZING PAINTING DAY continues. I drive a few miles down the coastal road and come upon this building, perched near the water. It calls out to me, the way so many of these landscapes do - the solitary house, or the two or three homes close together, at the edge of the Strait of Belle Isle. There's Eddie's Cove East, where I believe I am when I am painting this, and Eddie's Cove West, which I will hit tomorrow. Eddie's Cove East was settled by Philip Coates and his wife Sarah Duncan, says Wikipedia. The first census - 10 people - was in 1869. These days, Eddie's Cove East has a population of 80, down from its record high of 128 in the late 1980s. It is a tough place to live, with severe weather, heavy wind, persistent ice. Fishing, logging and saw mill work keep this little place going, like so many oth