This morning we wake up to overcast skies with the dark clouds threatening us to continue with what they have left off last week. We have breakfast and ready ourselves to leave Riviere Du Loup, QC and continue on Rt-132 along the St. Lawrence River. It is chilly all day, far away from the 59F of the forecast, closer to 45F. But the seat heating is working just fine and soon we pass Rimouski, QC. In Sainte-Luce, QC we take a tour along the river side to look at the wood carvings done by local artists. Incredible works of art, just a petty that some of them are just not well looked after and fall apart. We continue to Matane, QC and further along the river to Sainte-Anne-des-Monts, QC. But as so often, all the camps sites up here are still closed and so we return to Cap-Chat, QC to find a room for tonight. Maybe the better option anyway as up here the mountains and the slopes of the hills still have snow, and night temperatures are pretty low. But to our surprise did late afternoon the sun burn through the clouds and gives us a nice blue sky for the evening. After our dinner we stroll along the St. Lawrence River bank in the evening light and look for beach glass, at which Elke is very successful. The river by the way is so wide already that you can't see the opposite river bank anymore and very soon the river will turn into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
"When I spoke at the St. Lawrence Seaway ceremonies in 1969, I borrowed some words from the monument there which I had joined Queen Elizabeth in dedicating just 10 years before. That monument, as its inscription puts it, 'bears witness to the common purpose of two nations whose frontiers are the frontiers of friendship, whose ways are the ways of freedom, whose works are the works of peace'. - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States of America 1969-1974
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