From: "NSWSKC Webmaster"<nswseakayaker.asn.au>
Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2002 09:03:36 -800
Subject: Re: Sea Kayaking Story

Hi Jean-Marie,
The trip is a great read. I've added a link to your website under our "Other
Sea Kayaking Links" for members to enjoy.
Cheers,
Alan

Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 11:38:57 -0500
Subject: Re: Paddling.net Extended Trip Report

Thanks again for submitting your report. Given the length of the article
I decided to handle this one a little differently. Take a look, I hope
you like it:
http://www.paddling.net/places/showReport.html?322
-Brent
Paddling.net

Hi,
Congratulation for this super site !
I would like to make a link from my site to yours on www.expedition-agaguk.com.  And if you could add, about us, on your site, that we also offer guided trips on Anticosti island this would be great. By the way, if you go to Havre-Saint-Pierre one day, please don't be shy and come visit us : 418-538-1588,  1062 Boréal Havre-Saint-Pierre.  It's a five minutes walk from the wharf.
Thanks a lot
Regards
Gilles Chagnon

Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:44:56 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Web site

Nice job! I've Nordiked and flown that coast several times; like Labrador
it gets in your blood.
Wallace J.McLean

Subject: summer trip 2001
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 00:07:30 -0400

Hi,
I live in Chevery. I was in Harrington while you were there I think. I remember seeing you camping in the skating rink and seeing your things thrown over the rink boards to dry as i walked past on the board walk. A few days after that we took the Relais Nordik east to Blanc Sablon. As far as i can determine from the dates we went east around the same time you did. Now I wish I had stopped by the rink to say hello in Harrington. I have really enjoyed reading about your trip. Wish I had taken up kayaking or canoeing when I was younger. I grew up in row boats and motor boats without a life jacket. Now I am a bit scared in boats even with a life jacket, lol.
With Best Wishes,
Gloria Bobbitt

Gloria,
Thank you very much for your kind message.  We did not spend enough time in Harrington Harbour, being tired and stressed before our departure and tied for time during our brief stop on the Nordik on the way back.
We were fortunate to meet a few people during our short time there and had a little peek in the North Shore way of life.  I wish we had had more time to get more acquainted.  Next time !
I am a little bit curious about your name.  We met some Bobbitts in Mutton Bay and were wondering if you were related ?  I understand that the Bobbitts from Harrington Harbour are a different family from those in Mutton Bay...
Thanks for the link to the McGill site. I had read about this young man who kayaked across Canada and had heard that he had planned to complete his journey by kayaking from Montreal to Newfoundland.  I was very happy to read it and rediscover some of the places we paddled from another point of view.  Did you know that not only did he paddle, walk or bicycle his way across the continent, but that he also built his kayak himself !
I must also say that his experience was rather frightening and that he was courageous to undertake his trip so late in the year.
Best regards,
Jean-Marie

Subject: Re: summer trip 2001
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 13:33:59 -0400

Dear Jean-Marie,
I was always told we were some relation to the Bobbitts in Mutton Bay but I always thought it was a very distant relationship. Apparently not according to researcher Sharon Chubbs-Ransom of La Tabatiere and Harrington, now living in St. John's. It seems that William Bobbitt, my greatgrandfather, who came to Harrington from Burgeo, Newfoundland in the late 1800's was a brother of the first Bobbitt man in Mutton Bay. Sharon is the coordinator of the Lower North Shore geneological website that is part of the Quebec Gen Website and has recently entered a lot of new material re the Lower North Shore and its surname there. You would probably find it interesting.
Yes I only discovered a bit later that that young man had paddled all the way across Canada. At first I only say the Lower North Shore portion of his trip. I was totally impressed when i realized he had done a complete across Canada trip. Yes I saw too that he makes his own kayaks. If I were a paddler I would be tempted to buy one or at least want to buy one. If you are interested I will send you a list of sites that i have found recently on Labrador and trips. Let me know.
Best Wishes, Gloria Bobbitt

Subject: Harrington Harbour/Chevery
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 20:47:15 -0400

I really enjoyed reading about your trip and seeing all the pictures of the lower north shore.  I was born in july 1950 at Harrington Hbr hospital , was a general hospital at that time but grew up on Gull Cliff Island . Its on your left hand side of the passage into the Harbour at Harrington .
I left home when I was 19 to go to high school in NB and have never lived back home longer than 10 mths since but still love it forever and I guess its in my blood.  I go home to Chevery every year or so to visit and remember and feel the peace of the sea and the islands and the boats.  I went to Nfld last summer to Burgeo to see where my grandparents came from and they have a kayaking program there at the Burgeo Haven in Burgeo its a sea kayaking trip and its something like the trip you have done to Blanc Salbon.
Its a lovely place the north shore I cant wait to go home and visit .....
Betty Bobbitt Cormier

Subject: Re: Harrington Harbour/Chevery
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 13:24:31 -0400

Hi ....yes I read the book ("The Shipping News") a few yrs ago and saw the movie this year in december was great .  I like the books by Bernice Morgan ...its called "Waiting for Time" and the other one is "Random Passage" those are my favorites.   I live in Ottawa now but forever miss home , we are moving into spring here also I think with rain today and wet snow tonight. You should check out Burgeo on google and find Burgeo Haven they have salt water K also there ...take care
B. Cormier