Last night we grilled the salmon over charcoal on a cedar plank. Oh my, was that salmon good! After dinner, Walt greeted us with the news his car was “dead”, no lights, no power, nothing. Good Sam Road Service was there at 6:30 am as promised, fortunately just a jump sufficed. So all 4 of us hit the road early, around 9 am. After 20-30 miles the lush farms petered out until it was just the river, the mountains, and the road…all in close proximity. Harvey noted “We are no longer in Kansas, Toto.” Oh yeah, we are using walkie-talkies and CBs the chitchat on the road. In most places the mountains were within spitting distance to the right and the river about the same to the left. Spectacular views abounded around every bend and over every hill. The towns are much smaller and further in-between.
We missed the cut-off to the Cap Chat Lighthouse. Oh well! We did stop at the Cap Madeleine Lighthouse. This was a nice stop with a friendly gift shop. Several ladies left with new hand knitted caps. We encountered many steep up-grades (up to 12%) and more even steeper downhill grades, two 12%, one 14%, and one 15%. Definitely slow way down, first gear and roll easy just using the brakes to keep tach at less than 4000 rpm. The next 2 nights we are staying at Camping Gaspe in Haldimand, Quebec. We have a very nice view of the Gulf from our site. I hope the picture is as great as it is in real life with the nearly full moon reflecting on the water!
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