| The sandbar is also an excellent place to fly kites and build sandcastles and stone cairns. |
| The Common Tern colony of the Carleton sandbar represents the second largest concentration of terns in the Gaspé, with over 840 pairs. |
| Birders can walk on it, but no artificial structure is permitted either on the sandbar or in the salt marsh between the sandbar and the shore. |
| Not totally awaken I let myselft being caught out by a sandbar only 7 kms from start. |
| Though partially blocked by a sandbar at its outlet, the river can be entered by coastal steamers at high tide. |
| The sandbar itself, home to thousands of shoreline birds during the fall migration, is given over exclusively to conservation. |
