From the moment we got here in Hay River Doug Swallow has been incredibly helpful. He took us to our apartment and at first Dad gave him the wrong address and we ended up a few miles out of town so he had to take us all the way back in again and was very nice about being inconvienienced. He let us use his workshop for the whole of yesterday to unpack our Freight box and on top of that he is going to drive us two hours down to Fort Providence so we can avoid the fast water before Fort Providence as our boats will be very heavily laden and so, hard to control.
He also, very kindly, gave us a proof of his daughter's book which is a guide to the Mackenzie River. It is wonderfully written and will be very useful to us on the trip. For anyone who is interested the book is "The Mackenzie River Canoe Guide" by Michelle Swallow and will be out next month so look out for it.
Doug's Canoe Rental business is based in Hay River - http://www.canoenorth.ca/ (he is the one renting us the Clipper Trippers) and we can certainly, highly recommend it as an outfitter to anyone contemplating doing this journey, so once again, many thanks to Doug.
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