Hay River - the town - is at the mouth of the Hay River where it flows into Great Slave Lake. It's the end of the rail line, where everything that's shipped by barge to the Mackenzie (Dehcho) river system is transferred. There are long sandy beaches (with cold, cold water). This photo looks down the beach, past the NTCL docks, across the East Arm of the Hay River to the old settlement, which remains a Dene community and became NWT's first (and only) reserve in the 1970s.