Today is our day to chase the mighty Moby Dick. We have reservations for the 1:30 PM tour. But first we’ll take a look about Riviere du Loup. Forgot to mention yesterday we are staying in Camping Municipale de La Pointe. This is a very nice place to stay, full hookups, paved sites and roads, but alas no 50 amp…sorry Yvonne. After breakfast, we headed into town for shopping and sightseeing. Post Office was the first stop to mail Katherine’s Post cards. Only $0.98 per card for Canadian first class!
In town we found the Park of the Cross that offers a majestic view of the town and river. Down the hill a bit is the park of the Waterfall with several view points with parking and various views of the falls and gorge. The park has very interesting rock formations that graphically show deformations of the crust due to the tectonic plate movement that formed the Appalachians.
We met the rest at the dock for our Whale Wathcing Cruise. The first hour was windy and a bit rough…about 6 ft. swells with no whales. We headed east towards the Saguenay River outflow where whales were sighted. Finally we saw several minke whales not real close. Further east we ran into some finback whales we cahsed around for about an hour. Closest was maybe 75 yards. Just before we left for home one surfaced and blew about 25 yards off. A minute or 2 later it or another surfaced about 10 feet from the port side of he boat, just below where we were standing. Got some good pictures and video during the excitement. Everyone enjoyed the cruise. Seeing whales helped a lot on that score.
We finished along day with a meatloaf dinner Cathy prepared along with a campfire. Weather has been cool, 50’s and 60’s. It is supposed to warm to the mid 70’s rest of this week. We’ll see!
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