Narre ella - story from 'More Tales form Cabin 14'

"A small group of friends and I have been fishing Great Bear for over thirty years and what keeps bringing us back year after year is the opportunity to camp on the land, to explore, and with sincere apologies to Gene Rodenberry - to fish where no man has fished before. There are very few places where you have the opportunity to be "first" and Great Bear Lake is one of the few, and one of the last.

Our plans to spend several days camping were on hold because our original choice of location was completely iced in. Perhaps what I should have said was that we plan, we speculate, we wait, we worry, we arrive and then we adapt. So what choices did we have? Make the best of it around the lodge? Attempt to set up camp on the North shore of the lake or - and this was a long shot - fly 100 kilometers south east of the lodge to a place called Deerpass Bay or Narre ella as it is known to the Sahtu Dene - the people of Great Bear Lake…"

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