Fishing Camp at L'Archeveque

© Jul '12      photo by smck

© Jul '12      photo by smck

I almost titled this post "Room With An Ocean View".  For several years back in the 80's, we spent our summer vacation time here in our friends fishing camp on the long interval at L'Archeveque - the ocean on one side and a nice canoeing lake on the other.  Electricity but no running water, a rough kitchen with stove and an adjoining bedroom.  If we needed to answer a call of nature it was a good trek up to Rodger's camp where an old fashion out-house was available.  On the little deck we kept a tin basin and a water container for washing our hands and about every second day we would journey up to Frances' house to get a lovely hot shower.  Truly some of the most awesome memories of our lives - going to sleep with the sound of the surf and the plaintive low moan of the fog horn at the harbour, the kids collecting stones and shells and odd bits of driftwood along the beach,  lobster dinner spread out on old newspapers covered table, long walks down the endless shore, late evening campfires with hot dogs and marsh mallows.  And none of us would trade those carefree, low-key times for anything.

note:  this camp had originally been up on the rise of hill along with the camps shown in L'Archeveque Harbour Working Buildings 25 Sep, but was moved here about the time we used it in the 8o's.  I can't remember for sure if it had electricity at the time or not.