Gaspe: Retired Wooden Boats

Theme Day: Reflections

Lighthouse at Metis-sur-Mer, along the south shore of the lower St. Lawrence River, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec.

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Gaspe: Architecture

Gaspe: Sculptures in the Sea at Sainte-Flavie

Credit for these extremely affecting sculptures, collectively called Le Grand Rassemblement, or The Grand Gathering, goes to Marcel Gagnon. They rise out of the constantly changing sea that is the St. Lawrence River at Ste-Flavie in Gaspesie, Quebec.

Gaspe: Les Jardins de Métis - Reford Gardens

Gaspe: Perce To le Gite du Mont-Albert Via Baie des Chaleurs

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Gannets painted on Adirondack-style chair; 

church and detail of its steeple; 

Connecticut [we saw the car] fly fisherman with guide in sport jacket and fedora, plus two paddlers on Cascapedia River, total package:  $1000 per day 

distance from Wall Street:  priceless; 

moose alert;

snow on Mont-Albert;

two desserts from the gite at Mont-Albert; 

tiny purple violets on walk to lac aux Americains; 

lac aux Americains, huge glacial cirque, named for early American botanizers; 

the table top of Mont-Albert;

riviere Sainte Anne, one of many pristine salmon rivers.

Gaspe: Forillon continued

The harlequin duck is teaching its young to dive for food.

Except for the first photo taken at Anse-Blanchette, these are all taken from cap Bon-Ami on the exposed north side of the end of the Gaspe Peninsula where the Appalachian Mountains stop being above ground on North America. 

The chain continues on to cross Northern Ireland, Scotland and into Norway. There is geologic evidence that this is a continuous formation, including similar six-sided rock columns such as are easily seen at the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland.