We saw our first bit of rain on day 8 of this trip. We visited Forillon National Park.
Before the Government made it a park, it was a community of fisherman, mostly cod fish. The coast of Gaspe is where the finest cod in all America is cured. It is well-known on the markets of Spain and Italy where it is the preferred fish. They would fish hundreds of pounds per day that needed to be dried to be preserved. It was known as the “Gaspe Cure,” dried code from the Gaspe was famous for its pale, translucent appearance and its virtual imperishability. They used a quality curing process inherited from the 16th century which thrived throughout the 19th century.
The area is now a national forest where they have a General Store set up from the late 1800, early 1900 era. The clerk was trying to get Bill to open up an account.
We also visited a house and barn. In the barn, we found graffiti dating back to late 1800. Bill found graffiti from PS Horton who arrived on Bill’s birthday, May 24, only it was 1907.
We got back to the park in time to spend the evening celebrating one of our guest’s 40th wedding anniversary. We hope on our 40th we will be on a wonderful trip like this.
The next day was the most beautiful drive so far around the Gaspe Peninsula.
Once at our RV park, the view was breathtaking. We had a beautiful view of Bonaventure Island and “The Rock.”
We had a hot dog roast overlooking “Land’s End”, what a beautiful sunset that was. The rock seems to change colors “kinda-sorta” like it does in Bryce Canyon.
Our boat ride over to the island gave us a close look at this unique rock,
as well as the other side of the island, where we found the colony of gannets, the largest colony in North America and the second largest in the world.
The birds were everywhere, swimming, flying and nesting on the rocks. When they dive into the water from the air, they hit the water at over 100 miles per hour, or was that kilometers? Hmmmm…..
We even saw some puffins amongst them.
Once we unloaded onto the island, we hiked across the island, which was 5.6 km roundtrip, to get a closer glimpse of the gannets. It was worth the uphill hike! Wow, what a sight! There were thousands! They were so fun to watch.
We didn’t spend as long as we would have liked because we had to hurry back to our car to get back on the road again to backtrack to get our truck and trailer that we left in Metis-sur-mer. We saw “Mutual fencing, mutual preening, territorial defense, sky pointing, and regurgitation.”
Our truck was fixed today. It had another bad fuel injector. This was a different fuel injector from the one that went bad last year, and there are 8 fuel injectors! 6 more to go….Thank goodness for the extended warranty!!.
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