Short getaway on the St.Lawrence North Shore (continued)
We are on "Ile Nue" (Naked Island)
This gray seal stands guard on the shore platform.
| Les amoureux sont seuls au monde ! Lovers are alone in the world ! |
The Sphinx
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Les poses typiques de touristes
Typical tourist poses |
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Mertensie maritime avec ses fleurs d'un bleu lumineux ou encore le
Séneçon faux-arnica dont les fleurs sont de réels soleils, sont des
plantes tolérantes au sel marin et à la sécheresse. The Sea Bluebell (Mertensia maritima) with its bright blue flowers or the Seaside Ragwort (Senecio pseudo-arnica), whose flowers are real suns, are plants tolerant to sea salt and drought. |
The village of Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan, seen from Nue Island.
Ile Nue de Mingan consists almost exclusively of moor (a tundra style landscape), which makes it a unique and fragile place.
A young Least Sandpiper.
Our journey continues on this beautiful North Shore of the St. Lawrence River.
A land of high winds...
...and majestic streams
The Manitou Falls in Rivière-au-Tonnerre is worth the trip!
The Manitou River flows into the St. Lawrence after traveling some 125 km. The Manitou River Basin rises up north of the 51st parallel; It 's not surprising that it's water temperature does not warm much in summer.
de plus de 25 mètres de hauteur, soit l'équivalent des chutes Montmorency.
Less than one kilometer from its mouth, the river has an impressive fall
more than 25 meters high, equivalent to the Montmorency Falls.
The trail to get there pass through a forest that, if not enchanted, is totally enchanting!
Back on the road again, "the road of whales", that takes us to Sept-Iles.
What a surprise to see the Écomaris, which we often see at home in La Baie, docked at the Sept-Iles wharf.
Sept-Iles is aptly named.
We "boondocked" at Aylmer Whittom Park and very early the next morning walked the beautiful trail.
The Canada Goose no longer needs presentation.
| Il en est de même pour le Grand héron. It's the same for the Great Blue Heron. |
The miniature village is a joy for children.
In Port-Cartier, Patterson Island, today a pretty landscaped park, was full of activities during the Shelter Bay era.
It was the hub of operations for the Quebec North Shore Forest Company, linking its cutting lands with the shipping of timber to its newsprint mill in Ontario.
Find Griboo !
Our journey this year ends at the Pointe-des-Monts lighthouse. Next year, we will resume here to continue up to Tadoussac.
After that of Île Verte (1806), the Pointe-des-Monts lighthouse was the second to be erected in 1829-1830 on a point that the former geographers, since Samuel de Champlain himself, classified as a demarcation point between the river and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
See you next time !
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