Road Tripping Through the East

Another week on the road and we spent a ton of time traveling this week to some cool spots I've always wanted to check out. After leaving my cousin's place in Fredricton we headed straight up north to the French Canadian part of New Brunswick called Acadia. It's a really neat area with it's own distinct culture and we made our way all the way to the far north eastern point, Miscou Island where we set up camp next to a lighthouse on the beach. It was super cool.

From there we headed up to the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec and headed to the town of Matane where we caught a ferry across the Gulf of St Lawrence which took about two and a half hours to make the crossing to Godbout on the north coast. The area was beautiful and we made our way along the water before heading inland to Saguenay and then south into Jacques Cartier park. The weather turned super awful through there with some of the heaviest rain I've ever seen so we pressed on to Quebec City. It was a fun couple days and I wish I had more time to explore this beautiful area. I will definitely be back some time.

Here's a few shots.

Loaded up and ready to roll out from Fredricton

 Next stop Acadia. The people of this distinct region are really patriotic and everyone was flying some version of the Acadian flag.

These tractors were vacuuming up all the soil near Shippigan.

We stopped at the lighthouse on the very tip of Isle Miscou and decided to make camp

My cousin Dave found a bunch of jellyfish floating in the water.

We made camp right by the lighthouse.

These fishing boats were all colorful and lined up near Shippigan.

We left Acadia and headed for Quebec.

Next stop, the Gaspe Peninsula.

We found this boat just floating alongside this river in Quebec.

Dave decided to kick back and relax for a minute.

Here's the ferry we took up to the Godbout on the north side of the Gulf of St  Lawrence.

This little guy was trying to poach my snacks.

The scenery between Godbout and Baie-Comeau was beautiful.

Rare photo of me, up in northern Quebec. I tried to fit in by sporting the Nordiques hat I found a few days before.

My cousin gave me one of his army ration packs to try out. It was interesting to say the least. Definitely lots of stuff is packed in there and it didn't taste that bad. I could live off of them if I had to.