Auberge Les 2 Pignons Chicoutimi

... living room, bedrooms etc. I loved it there! After we'd found a bed, which was hard in the dark when some people were already sleeping, we went to the pub which was fully equipped with a bonfire and guitar. Loads of other assistants were there being merry and we hung around for a while catching up with each other and sharing experiences so far!

The next day was the Zodiac Experience. We excitedly put on the very fetching over trousers equipped with braces and the orange ...

Am Morgen war es soweit. Wir machten uns bei mehr od** we***** sonnigem Wett** auf, um die Wale zu beobachten.

Wir haben uns dick eingepackt. Zum Glück, denn es war sehr windig und kalt an Bord.

Gespannt liessen wir uns**e Augen üb** das Wass** schweifen. Und siehe da, d** **ste Zw**gwal liess sich blicken. Einen Finnwal, Belugas und Kegelrobben ...

Heute haben wir einmal richtig ausgeschlafen. Der Regen prasselte auf unser Camperdach nieder und so blieben wir ein bisschen länger im warmen Bett liegen. Wir gönnten uns heute ein Frühstück auswärts. So richtig mit Speck, Spiegeleier, Kartoffeln und Früchten. Das war aber lecker!

Da es recht kalt war, beschlossen wir, uns eine Sommerfrisur verpassen zu lassen. Schliesslich lassen wir uns nicht unterkriegen, oder?!
Natascha wurde es jedoch recht mulmig, als ...

Nach einer Besichtigung von Baie-St. Paul sind wir Richtung Tadoussac unterwegs.

Da die Nächte langsam richtig kalt werden, haben wir beschlossen, uns in Malbaie zusätzliche Decken zu kaufen.

Die Strasse brachte uns am idyllischen Port-au-Persil vorbei, welches hübsch in einer Felsbucht liegt.

In Baie-St. Catherine müssen wir die Fähre nach Tadoussac nehmen. Wir sehen bereits den ersten Zwerwal. Und wie wir nachträglich ...

OK it is pretty hard to beat this, sitting on an outcrop of rock in Tadoussac watching Minky whales pass by. It means I am a little distracted as I write this and hop up occasionally calling out with all the others here "look' 'over there' 'wow' etc. I am also once more impressed with my lovely wee laptop (thanks Alistair) I just never grow bored of how fantastic it is to have such a portable machine. We went out this morning to watch for the whales in a ...

Our little bed and breakfast was quite
simple but very nice, it was run by a young couple very eager to make
our stay a good one and they fussed over us with a beautiful
breakfast of waffles and cereal looking out over Lac St Jean. This
lake as they call it is much more like a sea, it is absolutely huge,
you can't see across it in any direction. We had a good plan for the
day with the first stop at the local wildlife park Zoo Sauvage de
Saint Felicien. We ...

We decided instead of taking the direct route to Tadoussac rather to take the longer mountain via Alma which would be less busy and hopefully we'd get to see a moose, deer or even bear! As luck would have it we did get to see a moose, a large male with some huge antlers. Sadly the impressive animal was spread eagle on the back of a pick-up with a glassy look in its eyes and would no doubt shortly be taking up a spot on the trophy wall. Even though the drive didn't offer up any Canadian ...

So it was time for our last day in this beautiful place, by which time most of us had decided we'd quite like to pack in our jobs and just live here instead! As this wasn't possible we instead said goodbye to Tadoussac by having a very filling brunch, wandering around town and then heading up to the sand dunes for an amazing view, before saying our reluctant goodbyes ...

Saturday was a beautiful day in Tadoussac - bright blue skies and hardly a cloud to be seen, at least, on land! Having had a nice lie in and a lazy brunch in the village, at 1pm we booked ourselves onto a 3 hour cruise to go find us some whales. For the first 30 minutes or so we didn't have much luck, until a Minke whale popped up out of nowhere and disappeared again! Following that up popped a couple of Beluga whales (suprinsingly cute), and then another quiet patch ...

... la route. Nous rejoignons le camping... le plus naze qu'on ait jamais vu ! (Bon, ok, les toilettes sont mieux qu'a Werchter !). Heureusement, Sylvain et Josee nous ont prete tout leur matos de camping : tente, camping-gaz, glaciere... On a un peu galere a monter la tente le premier soir, mais on s'en est bien sorti ! Une belle grande tente hexagonale : mieux que la tente de Kadhafi !!! Dans les campings au Quebec, ce qui est cool c'est qu'on peut ...