Rob-n-Hild, Eastward Ho!
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Grand Falls - Forillon National Park 535 km. 7:26 hours. Elevation maximum 555 metres. 
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| A long drive today - with an extra bit of exercise for Mary Jane thrown in - but we have our nice Oasis here in Forilon National Park and we have even got some work done! Well Hild has been doing invoicing for her various peeps while Rob has been mucking about with web pages, but that is close to work in his book.... We don't have power in our little Oasis, so we will hold off on writing the full page until a bit later. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| One of the fun things we have been doing while driving is reading bits from an old CAA Canada Driving Guide that Norah has loaned to us last year. Today, driving along the south shore of the Gaspé peninsula we read about a high lookout point above Carleton sur Mer. We hadn't seen it noted much, but because we were were actually looking as we drove through Carleton we found the signs to Mont St-Joseph and took off up the road. And up it was! Poor Mary Jane - the slope was between 10 and 30% and she had to go into first gear for parts of it! A lovely view at the top, with an amazing church. It was just as slow (maybe even slower!) going down - also in first gear a lot of the way with careful use of the brakes - but Hild made it in style. Although it did lower her average speed a lot - 9.2 km in 20 minutes! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Next it was a fun spot for lunch - in Bonaventure next to a lighthouse with a wooden fisherman on some rocks. We had to perch on the rocks to make our tea, but it was worth it as the tea went down very well. Hild went up the lighthouse that turned out to be a small- scale version for younger people, but she squeezed her way up and back down! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| We then drove out to Percé to see a very distinctive rock first noted by Champlain when he arrived here in 1603. At the time, he reported just one hole in the rock, but by 1758 there were two. However, part of the rock has collapsed since then and there is just one hole now! It is a very popular site for nesting birds and there are plenty of boat tours that will take people out there, but we were happy with a picture from the land. Besides, we had to get to our Oasis! | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| And here it is - our little Oasis in Forillon National Park. Not as high as the one in Terra Nova, but a lovely view over the bay - and almost hidden from the other side. We settled in a made dinner before doing some invoicing before the power runs out. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coming up: Hiking in Forillon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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