Gaspe' Peninsula - Day 4

October 2:  Stopped at two lighthouses: Pointe a la Renommee’ and Cap des Rosier.

Overnight at Forillon National Park…pricey by our standards but quite nice and the showers were hot.  Took a look around the North End of Forillon National Park. You can really smell the balsam here.  A nice well-treed campsite with electric.  Many lighthouses dot the coast along the St. Lawrence and we

Won’t be stopping at all of them…we missed a couple.  The entrance to lighthouse Pointe a la Renommee’ lighthouse was very well done…nice sign, paved road.  In we went but it quickly turned to a gravel road and it turned out to be a couple of miles and and down a steepish road.  In parts the width was really questionable if two vehicles could pass and it was on part of the steep section with

Pointe a la Renommee’ lighthouse 

No guard rails. Fortunately there were few cars that went back there.  Our treat?  A moose siting and picture.  There was a car that stopped and both occupants got out to take a picture (not far from the moose and definetly not smart).  Moose walked towards us; we got a front shot. They got a bum shot…hahah!  Off went Moose.  Cap des Rosier Lighthouse treated us to a whale siting from shore….could not ID it, photo it, or even get it on binoculars because its movements where unpredictable.

Cap Des Rosier lighthouse

We did site a whale down here but simply
could not get a photo