Three days at Perce and the weather didn’t improve; it got even worse with dense fog. Such a disappointment but this means we will have to go back someday. Here is one pathetic picture of the rock taken from our campsite. Unseen to the left of the rock is the beautiful little town of Perce.
Sadly we left and continued driving along the coast enjoying amazing scenery. Quebec is so pretty, so clean, and overall way friendlier than I expected. This province goes way overboard to welcome tourists. There are tourist offices in practically every little town, plenty of scenic little pull over parks with tables and water and sometimes an RV dump, and the driving is easy with roads better than expected and very little traffic.
We crossed into New Brunswick at Campbellton which is at the beginning of Chaleur Bay. This area is bilingual. All signs are in both French and English and it’s a tossup as to which language store clerks will first speak to you in. Then they switch to whatever language need be. Campbellton is on the edge of the Restigouche Highlands, part of the Appalachian Mountains. Sugarloaf Mountain on the edge of town, has skiing.
I received a lucky break with this picture because 5 minutes later a slight breeze came up and the reflection was gone. The right side is Quebec and the left N. Brunswick.
This is a big salmon fishing area
There’s a nice walking trail along the bay with fountains, picnic tables, a wharf with overnight RV parking (free), and more.
Category: Quebec
Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec
Yesterday we drove from Matane to Perce, about 200 miles. The scenery gets better every mile until we rounded a sharp curve and dropped into Perce when all I could say was OMG because it was so beautiful! The weather was great yesterday for the most anticipated drive of the trip. It started raining last night and it’s cold and gloomy today but we are going to stay in Perce for a few days and hopefully the sun will shine. We want to take a boat ride to Bonaventure Island to see the birds and maybe some whales. We are at an RV park that juts out into the ocean so we have ocean and views on three sides and we also overlook the town, the island, and the famous rock offshore that gets compared to the Rock of Gibraltar. This RV park is very large but at the moment we are the only customers. In fact, we’ve practically had the whole peninsula to ourselves as tourist season doesn’t really begin until after June 15th. When we arrived last evening there was a rental RV here with a German brother and sister couple (our age). They invited us for a glass of wine in their RV last night and I won’t say how many bottles we ended up drinking. Molly was invited too, and they had special cooked her some unseasoned hamburger meat as a treat. She was in Martin’s lap most of the time. People who love dogs that much are A-Okay! We’ve received a very sincere invitation to visit them in Germany for a few days if we go to Europe next year. They left this morning as they are only in Canada for three weeks and have much to see.
There are many, many beautiful RV parks all along the peninsula with such nice settings.
Many homeowners have gotten creative with their houses.
Perce, Quebec
Colorful Saint Ulric
Not many miles were driven today but I want to show you these pictures from a little town we passed through.
This is the bathroom at a little river side park. The entire park; trash cans, benches, playground, was in this style. The path all along the river through town had benches and more trash cans like this.
Had to jump in the View because we had a sudden rain
All the extra touches on this house are wood carvings. Maybe the same person did the town park too.
Curious cows. Most cows don’t stop eating and look at me when I take their picture.
Wanderlets 