Thursday, August 30, 2012

Kouchibouguac to New Richmond, PQ

Quite a bit of driving today as we travelled to the top of New Brunswick and into Quebec to begin a tour of the Gaspé Peninsula.
There was a stop for lunch in Bathurst, N.B. where I found an excellent ham and cheese sandwich and some REAL coffee which I had ground for french press. The instant this morning was quite unsatisfying not to mention that it had hardened into great lumps that I had to use a pot bottom to break up. Even then it didn’t want to dissolve.
We crossed over a bit bridge at Campbellton, New Brunswick and were in Québec once again. The first stretch of the Gaspé peninsula is quite built up with lots of motels and cottages and many “tourist attractions”. One of those tourist attractions is quite interesting. In various towns along the way there are large, outdoor photo exhibits. We stopped just outside of Carleton-Sur-Mer to look at yet another salt marsh and found an excellent series of photos taken along the U.S. Mexico border.
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The photos are large and the materials they are printed on will surely cope with the elements. I’ve just seen another sign for a different exhibit here in New Richmond which I intend to check out in the morning. I’ve been unable to discover anything about these exhibits on Google.
Otherwise here’s a photo of Carleton-Sur-Mer from the viewing platform.
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And this is the beach near where we are camped tonight at New Richmond, PQ.
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