Woke up this morning to clear blue skies and unlimited visibility!
After breakfast we headed out to the “Explorama” exhibit in Rimouski. This is an aquarium where there a touch pools and other marine exhibits. We were lucky in that we got there just as a guide was starting a presentation at the touch pools. We were doubly lucky in that she was willing to give the presentation in French and English (just for us). I only took one picture inside the aquarium as flash photography was not allowed. Among some of the more useless trivia I came away with were facts about Star Fish. Not only will a star fish grow replacement arms should they be careless to them, should you decide to cut one in half you will finish up with 2 fully functional live starfish!
As I said, only one picture, that of a blue lobster.
After the aquarium there were no planned stops just heading west towards home. However we did find a couple of things to do. As the weather had not been too cooperative recently we found a beach to walk along for a while. It was nowhere near as exotic as the ones in Alabama, but it did allow us to get some fresh air and exercise. Although the skies were clear, it was still blowing a gale and not overly warm at 14C (58F). Some general pictures below.
Further along the road we saw a large wind farm, with an odd looking structure on the edge of it. Initially I thought it was a radio antenna (similar to the type I have been experimenting with, albeit on a smaller scale)
Even looking at up close I was still convinced it was an antenna. There was an information kiosk at the site but it was closed, however there was a web-site mentioned (projeteole.ca). It wasn’t until I read the site that I realized the structure was a vertical wind turbine. It was part of a series of experiments back in the ’80’s to find the most efficient way of recovering power from the wind. It was decommissioned in 1993, obviously windmills won the battle!
We continued west bound to our final night stop at Riviere du Loup. The St Lawrence river is narrow enough at this pint that you can see across to the other side. Below is a picture from our hotel room, complete with a small car ferry.
That concludes this trip report, tomorrow we head home on a the highway, so nothing of interest there! All in all we have enjoyed the trip, we survived the challenges of the French language! In some places language was not an issue at all, in others we had to resort to what ever little French we had between us, but we manged to survive! The scenery was every bit as good as we had expected (even on the wet days!).
We have been organizing future travel recently, if all goes well this is our plan. Some trips will have blogs others not.
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