Day 13 - Gaspe

We spent another day in Gaspe. I stayed at the campsite and did the laundry and cleaned out the trailer a bit. Also I organized all our photos into albums on Picasa.



Leo went out to Park Forillon to take pictures and hike up to the look-out which gives you a 360 degree view. At the top of Mont St. Alban the Parks Service have built a tower which is so high it takes you clear of the tops of the trees to provide an unobstructed perspective. The weather cleared slowly as the day progressed and the view just kept improving. This must be a spectacular vista when the forest is in full fall colour here. Hopefully the pictures of the day will provide an idea of what was to be seen. (And we must retract our earlier comment that Newfoundland can not be seen from the Gaspe peninsula. The 300 meters which the tower has in altitude negate the curvature of the earth which we still presume makes Newfoundland nonvisible from sea level.)



Then followed a trip to the Cap des Rosiers lighthouse, which one could climb for a paltry $2.50 in coin of the realm. Lastly a repeat visit to the Riviere de Renard harbour showed it in sunshine as opposed to the fog of the day before. The private yachts we had seen the day before seemed to be in the harbour for a cross-Atlantic race to La Rochelle in France. There was more than a paltry sum of coin of whatever realm spent on these boats I assure you! Many were many meters long and could withstand a good wave or two.

Our photos can be viewed by clicking here.