Monday, November 11, 2024

T Stands for More of Quebec- Part 5

     Hi everyone. It's time for T again over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog . Once again I'm taking you back to my trip to the Gapse Peninsula of Quebec in late September. Some of you mentioned a saying about gannets last week. I’ve never heard the saying "someone eats like a  gannet".  It's always fun to learn new phrases so to those of you who mentioned it,  thanks for sharing it with me. 👍

  I included this map as my first photo because today we're driving along the shore and not in any one particular spot. Just so you can see where we are, we're driving along the purple segment (Upper Gaspé) of the map.


     The weather wasn't super that day, with clouds, fog and even a bit of scattered rain. Our first stop was this light house. I was excited because once we walked down from the parking area  I discovered it was an original Marconi station. During the trip I was reading Thunderstruck by Eric Lawson,  which is a book about  Guglielmo Marconi and the story of the wireless telegraph system he (along with a few others) created. This all led to the radio transmissions as we know them today.




You can see the low clouds that were hanging along the shoreline.


We drove up and down a lot of hills, many with some fairly steep grades


and even areas with common rock falls. (These photos are a slight bit fuzzy since I snapped them while we were driving.)


     One section of the road that went on for about 70 km (about 44 miles) was beautiful as the road was sandwiched between cliffs on one side and the ocean on the other.





At times the road turned inland towards the mountains for a short spell. You can't see the water, but there was a small harbor on the right.


Here's another lighthouse we passed and stopped at.



     Then we arrived in St. Anne des Monts which was a small city. It wasn't too far beyond that city where we came to our cabin for the next couple of nights.


     This was a  great place to stay because  behind our cabin was a walking trail, and it also was directly across the road from a beach. This next picture is NOT the beach but a view from behind the cabin. (I'll share the beach next Monday.)


And here’s the trail. 


Plus it was a really comfy place to stay for a couple of nights.


      You can see it was  chilly one of our nights  so we even had a little woodstove fire going. And can you see my bottle of diet coke as one of my T day tickets?

     Next door was a great little restaurant also. My other T day drink photos are from the night we had dinner there. My husband and I each had a different microbrew. This not so clear photo was his.


And here's mine.


       And sorry to make anyone hungry, but the restaurant had this lobster panini sandwich on the menu.  It came with fries and this delicious green salad.  Since lobsters are also a local specialty in this area of Quebec, and since many of you probably know how I like a lobster  sandwich, it's what I had for dinner that night. 😏👍❤


     The next evening, after a day of walking, we had dinner in our cabin, but I will save that for next week's T. Have a great T day and week ahead everyone.











 

15 comments:

Tom said...

...Erika, you saw some fabulous sights on your trip and the food looked great too!

Mae Travels said...

Your landscapes and sea views are very pleasant even though you were taking them in the rain. Your lobster also looks good.
best, mae

DVArtist said...

Oh this looks like a wonderful trip. I love the red cabin, a very nice place. Yum on the food too.

Angie's Recipes said...

Gosh, I love those ocean views and that sky shot was amazing!

Iris Flavia said...

I understand your excitement over the lighthouse :-)
I love to read Braunschweig-crime stories (fiction) cause I know the places.
Wasn´t a lighthouse involved in the foggy horror-movie "The fog"? I saw as a child and freaked out.... That´s what happens when your parents do not control what you watch, LOL.
Your cabin looks beautiful! Inside-out!
Cool can, too, appropriate!
Hehe, LOL, not hungry. I remember my older cousin at the beach. She caught the smaller version of lobsters and ran after me to scare me. I could never eat this ;-)
Looking forward to next T-Day, have a great one today, hugs

Anonymous said...

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David M. Gascoigne, said...

Thanks for your continuing coverage of your journey through La Gaspésie, Erika. You visited a couple of spots new to me - it just proves how much remains to be explored. Some friends who have never been there are prodding me to organize a trip for next August when the gannet colony is alive and bustling. I’ll have to give some serious thought to it. We’ll be visiting my daughter in Ottawa this weekend and doubtless will cross over into Gatineau so at least I’ll get a bit of Québec into my system, and that area is beautiful. Not like Gaspé though! Au plaisir de vous lire encore - David

Jeanie said...

Be still my heart. A lobster panini? Yes, I would have ordered that, too! What a beautiful area, and I really love your cabin. That's very cozy. I like that you could bring the dogs. Thanks for showing the map -- that's a part of Canada I'm not familiar with. It gives good context!

Empire of the Cat said...

How fun to be reading a book about the place that you are visiting. I did that too when I went the Hebrides. I love those little cabins, that would do me just fine as a house, if I didn't have three cats that don't get along (need more space for that!) and I love that the beers have their own glasses to go with them. Happy Tea Day!

CJ Kennedy said...

Very cool lighthouse. I love the photos of the fog and grey skies. Very moody. The puppers look quite comfortable in your little cabin. Oh, lobster panini! Whatever I'm having for lunch today will not be that spectacular. Enjoy the last of the warmish weather. Happy T Day

Beatrice P. Boyd said...

First, Erika, that lobster sandwich looked delicious even if you could not share here. The clouds really added to many of the photos. A clear sky day is always nice when traveling, but sometimes can be too much. Glad the vweather didn't keep you from getting around.

Lisca said...

What a beautiful area. A shame the weather didn't cooperate. How amazing that you happen to read about Marconi when you visited the lighthouse.It really was an invention that changed the world.
I love the little cabin you stayed in. Nice and cosy. I suppose traveling with dogs, you have to really research and plan ahead.
The food looks amazing. Yes, I would have ordered lobster sandwich as well as I have never had that.
Happy T-Day,
Lisca

Lowcarb team member said...

Such a lovely selection of photographs ... but I especially like the lighthouse.

All the best Jan

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

What an incredible trip. I can see why you got excited about the lighthouse and that plaque.

I'd be a bit frightened of those falling rocks signs. Glad you didn't see any.

What an adorable cabin you rented. Charming both inside and out.

Nice you gave us so many drink choices, including your diet coke and your two beers in very different glasses. Thanks for sharing your lobster panini and drinks, as well as this leg of the trip with us for T this almost Tuesday, dear Erika.

Got a "failed to publish," but will keep trying. Not sure why this has started again.



Neet said...

Thanks for the photos of somewhere I will never see for myself -your photos and comments take me there.
Gosh some areas looked so cold and misty but the food looked wonderful. I could murder some lobster right now.
Hugs, Neet xx