Dining. . .
We get an early start at Kaska Goose Lodge with a full, hot breakfast served at 5:30 AM. Guests can start off by helping themselves to hot Red River cereal or porridge, a selection of fruit juice, fresh fruit and fresh-perked coffee, which is available on the sideboard. This is followed by a full, hot breakfast that varies daily between ham, breakfast sausage, and bacon, accompanied by eggs any style, hash-browed potatoes and buttered toast. Omelettes and eggs Benedict are also part of the breakfast fare at Kaska Goose Lodge.
Hunters have the option of coming back to the lodge for a hot meal or taking out a bag lunch with sandwiches, thermoses of hearty, home made soup, fresh fruit, cookies and hot coffee or tea. Many guests choose to stay in the field for the day as, unlike hunting the prairies, the migrating geese will fly all day, providing good hunting opportunities during mid-day as well as the traditional morning and evening hunts.
Guests come back to a comfortably warm cabin with a welcoming fire set in the hearth. Appetizers are served to our hunters in their cabins after they return from the field. Marinated, grilled goose and duck breasts with our special sauce are a perennial favourite.
After a hot shower, a light snack of appetizers and perhaps a beverage or two it is time for our guests to come over to the main lodge for dinner. Dinner conversation is lively as the hunters recount not only their day’s hunting adventures, but also relate their wildlife sightings – a sow polar bear with two cubs wandering down the Hudson Bay Coast; an Arctic fox facing-off with a hunter over a downed Pintail; a bull moose foraging along the shore of a freshwater creek; a wolverine checking out the decoy spread; a harp seal sunning itself on the rocky shore of the Kaskattama River; woodland caribou walking along the river bank west of the lodge; a black bear eating berries alongside the trail to the airstrip; or a lone wolf warily studying the hunters from the top of an old beach ridge.
The dinner menu also varies from day to day. Dinner starts with either a salad or home-made soup followed by the main course. Kaska’s main courses are typically selections such as pot roast, turkey with all the trimmings, barbequed ribs, stuffed loin of pork, ham and scalloped potatoes and lasagne with garlic toast. Desserts are always a treat at Kaska – from apple cobbler to home-made blueberry pie made from fresh-picked blueberries.
There is absolutely no worry about going hungry during your trip to Kaska as the food is plentiful and the quality and taste excellent.