37d What a great day in Port Saguenay

Next stop was a well-deserved lunch, a hearty vegetable soup, a traditional
meat pie and a sugar pie which reminded me of a caramel tart that we would
make with boiled condensed milk, well maybe not as heavy. We washed that
down with the local blueberry beer, it seems I was the only one who liked
it!
That was the sustenance that was needed to for us to complete our next task.
We carefully filled two Rabaska Canoes, a canoe that was formerly used by
trappers on Quebec's lakes and rivers. They are 8 metres long and sit 10 in
each one. After overhearing Ed was in the English army, Vicky, our guide
felt that this experience was enough to put him in charge of steering the
second canoe. Ed agreed, but was a bit concerned that his army experience
of repairing tanks may not cut it. But he did do a wonderful job, and with
Peter at the helm to push us away from the oncoming rocks and branches they
did well as a team. We canoed around the lake in search of beavers. This
lake only exists because of the beavers, the original dam builders. If it
wasn't for the wall they built at the far end, we would be trying to canoe
on a swamp. A bit like our track record with spotting whales or dolphins,
the beavers also alluded us as we unintentionally zig zagged around the
lake.