T Stands for a Day of Walking in Quebec

     Hi everyone. Happy  T Day once again over at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog . This month is flying. When I went to schedule this post over this past weekend I was surprised to see we're already at the 18th of the month.

     Yes, I'm still sharing posts about my Quebec trip, but we are starting to get towards the end. I think I'll have 2 or 3 more Monday travel themed posts. Today's trip report is all about one day when we did a lot of walking.

     Here's the map again. We're still in the purple region (Upper Gaspe). See the small city of Sainte-Anne-des-Monts. Our cabin and the beach was just west (left) of there, near where the purple turns to the orange-brown color. The park I'll mention in today's post is just inland on the road that crosses the peninsula from Sainte-Anee-des-Monts.

    The plan for this day was to visit Gaspesie National Park, which is inland from the ocean just a short distance (around a 15 minute drive). That was one of the beautiful things about the Gaspe peninsula. You had the ocean and 4,000 foot (to around 1200 m) mountains close by. 

The foliage colors weren't too bad in the mountains either.

     However, we had one little snafu. Many park trails were not open to dogs. In the big scheme of things that was OK because neither of us were really up to climbing a mountain. 

However, there was a very nice dog friendly trail that went along a river and also ended up at a waterfall.

       Our two dogs have very different walking styles. Mr. Pete  walks with determination and passion. In his mind, that's what a walk is about, moving. On the other hand Miss Maddie thinks a walk is time for many good sniffs, and she meanders along.  When she isn't done with a sniff, she doesn't want to move. If you want to walk, and she doesn't it is hard to move her.

     But in many ways their walking style fits my husband and myself. I take Pete, because he and I like to move. My husband takes Maddie, because he likes to meander.

Here they come, pulling up the rear. Pete and I were waiting for them.

More cool tree roots and also a sign along the trail.

These mushrooms looked so shiny but they weren't  really as slimy like I expected them to be.

     Because we weren't hiking any mountains, we returned to our cabin by mid-afternoon. Across the street was the beach, and the tide was out so off we went for a beach walk.

     Ha ha. I love how you can see shadow me snapping a photo with me  phone .😏  Since we were inland a bit, I was curious about the river. Here's what I found on Wikipedia about the beach and town we were staying in:

"Cap Chat (Cape Cat) derives its name from a large rock formation on the cape shaped like a sitting cat and is the point where the Gulf of St. Lawrence narrows and becomes an estuary."

Once again I walked Pete and the hubby walked Maddie.

    Our last walk for the day was to this distillery that was down the street from our cabin. This is my ticket to T this week.

     We went in and had a tasting. The goal of this business was to produce alcohols that had tastes natural to the area like seaweed and mushroom vodka. Those didn't thrill me, but they did have some wonderful liquors. You can see the 3 bottles we bought before we left. I don't think the lemoncello was particularly native to Quebec, but you can't go wrong with a good kick of lemon sometimes. 

     The maple liquor on the right was not super sweet, and we decided it would make a nice kick when added to some fresh apple cider. The weekend my daughter and her husband visited at the end of October we had some yummy kicked up cider while we celebrated birthdays.

      After our day of walking we stayed in that evening, had a fire in the woodstove to take off the chill and made some pasta for dinner. ( And yes,  I did share this photo last week.)

     That's all for me this post. Have a super T day and week ahead.