Berries

One of my favorite activities when I go at my summer cabin is  to go on the island for berry picking. You can pick any kind of berries. For example, you can pick bake apples, red berries, blueberries, blackberries (camarine noire) and sometimes you can pick raspberries. You find berries on the island or in the mech.  If you go berry picking on islands you go on outboard ; if you go in the mech you go on four wheeler or you walk. I love bake apples, blueberries and raspberries. You can pick as you want. You can eat the berries and this is delicious. With any berries, you can make a pie, a desert, you can just eat them fresh or with milk and sugar. It’s very interesting to go on island because you can find alot of things when you pick berries.

C.M.

Seafood on the Lower North Shore

              Going to another country or to another city to eat and learn more about different food is always interesting, but what’s even better is when you get to eat it in your own town. Not having to travel a long way to get good sea food is absolutely wonderful. It’s the case on the Lower North Shore. The residents of the Lower North Shore are lucky to get such good food for such a low price. You can get lobster, crab, fish, shrimps, clams and anything else you want. There is so much of that stuff that people are making a job of it. There is a lot of fisher men on the Lower North Shore.

                People in the city have to go to the grocery to get seafood and it is not always fresh. We are lucky enough to have it here and the taste is always so fresh and so good. I think that people who haven’t been on the Lower North Shore yet should come and definitely try all the good food we have. This is certainly something I am going to miss when I leave to go to college. Lobster will always stay my favorite, what about you?

M-P. M.

Snowmobiles

In the Lower North Shore, we can’t use cars or trucks when there is too much of snow. So, we use snowmobiles all winter as much on the Main road than on the White road. Everyone who lives in the Lower North Shore hase a snowmobile. We use this snowmobile to make a variety of activities. We go ice fishing, or we go for an outdoor dinner. And with a snowmobile, we go in other villages. We use this vehicle to go to the hockey tournaments. So, the snowmobile is not just a vehicle, it’s a tradition that is in our culture.

Philippe Monger

Fishing Boats

To be a Fisherman is a seasonal work and it’s very hard. Each year, the fishermen go to Natashquan for a month and come back to fish the amount of crab they need to catch. Sometimes, they come back because they haven’t reached their quotas and continue in other areas. Most of the time, they have finished. All summer, in the night they go for work. Each boat has between two and five fishermen. In my village, there are six boats and six Captains. The men fish for cod, halibut and sometime they fish goldfish. My uncle has a fishing factory, so he can buy fish. At the dock, there is an industry for crab.

When the men work, it all depends on the temperature. If the temperature is good, they can go but otherwise, no. they must respect some area and when they have finished one, they change area.

H.M.