It was back to the North Shore of the St. Lawrence this week. Two of us headed out to Longue Pointe De Mingan to install a new air filter pack sampling tower. We drove to the site in a rental van. Our first day took us as far as Rivière-du-Loup. In the hotel there was a beer vending machine. It was $3.75 a bottle. You didn't actually put your money in, you had to pay at the front desk and then they would open the machine and give you the beer.
From Rivière-du-Loup, it was an early start to catch the ferry at Matane.
It is a 2 hour ferry trip across the St. Lawrence River to Godbout.
It was on to Sept-Îsles and then the site in Longue-Pointe-de-Mingan. It was another long day, about 6 hours after we got off the ferry.
Things went well with the installation and it was time for the long drive back to Toronto. It was only back to Sept-Îles the first day.
The accommodations for the week.
The big puffin.
The big whale.
Another big puffin in front of the store.
The weather wasn't co-operating forcing us to make a change in our itinerary back to Toronto. We arrived at the ferry terminal, only to find out that due to the weather the ferry had been cancelled. It meant we had to drive back along the north shore along highway 138. The drive along the north side is a little more hilly and the highway isn't as nice. We did have to take another ferry at Tadoussac across the Saguenay River.
Our rental van.
Our stop for the night was in Lévis, just outside of Quebec City. Not sure what this building was, but it looked like it was cut in half.
