After an evening of rain and still some rain early in the morning we woke up to a foggy but dry day. The weather forecast called for cloudy skies with some sun, but a chance of showers and thunderstorms later in the day.
We decided to try it and went to the Forillon National Park. It is quite different from the parks we are used to on the West of course. But it again offered very nice scenery and a lovely drive through some small towns until we hit the 'park' part and there we got to see nature at its best.
We stopped at a small harbour where you could take some whale watching tours, but we did not need to as a whale swam by right in front of us. We also got the see the whale a bit later on our way to our next stop. As one tourist said (a Dutch tourist) 'you don't need to spend money on a whale cruise here'.
Also at this little harbour you could fish for mackerel and there was one fisherman who was catching them one after the other. The best part was, you did not need a licence to fish.
The smells of 'fish' were a pleasure to the nose when walking past stacks of crab nets on the pier.
On to our next stop. A nice 1 hour walk to a look out point where you could see Newfoundland on a nice day (just kidding) but not so today. We had sunshine up to that point but now the clouds were moving in and the wind was blowing hard. Back we went to the car to drive around to the north point of the peninsula and the park.
Here we did not stay too long which was good because as soon as we got back into our car and were driving toward a lighthouse the rain started to come down, and I mean come down. So we made no visit to the lighthouse this time. We just followed our favourite highway 132 west this time until we hit the town of Rivierre de Renard. By then the rain had stopped but there were low clouds.
I saw a little harbour with lots of fishing boats, so we went to visit them and had a 'whale' of a time watching the shrimp and fish being brought in. The photos will show it all of course.
Thereafter it was back to our campsite again in time for supper. As there is a snackbar right at this campsite we had french fries again with our meal. How nice it was to have these and even to have mayonaise to dip them in.
We will be staying another night and day here and hope to do more sight-seeing around this area.
Besides a whale we also saw a fox today, some more seals, lots of flowers and we listened to lots of birds as well.
Again our pictures can viewed at photos for Day 12
