We Must Be Travelers

“Tourist don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they are going.” (Paul Theroux)

The Gaspe’ is divided into sections, The Valley, The Coast, The Haute-Gaspesis, Land’s End, and The Bay. We have worked our way north and east to Land’s End. Yesterday we took a modified zodiac out in the Bay to look for whales. We did see some behemoths, but I enjoyed the opportunity to see the cliffs and sea caves even more. After our return to shore, we set out to hike the 7K roundtrip to Cap Gaspe’, the real “Land’s End”. Butch made a valiant effort but his knees gave way and I had to Summit on my own.
It was a stunningly beautiful walk. At the top there is a lighthouse and markers regarding the Appalachian Trail (placed by the Georgia AT group) and the international Appalachian Trail. It is just amazing to know that we have traveled along these same ancient mountains for almost 2000 miles.

Gaspe’ Bay brings bittersweet memories for those of us who lived through WWII. It was prepared as a safe area for the British Royal Navy in case Britain had to surrender to the Germans. All of the vessels at sea, who could escape, were to come here. What a sight that would have been, but how happy that it never happened.

Did a little beachcombing late yesterday. Still finding tiny piece of green glass & not much else. Didn’t these folks do anything but drink beer? Out of green bottles? We are moving on to Perce’ tomorrow. It is only 50 miles away but we want to camp on the beach again and to take the boat out to Bonaventure Island to see the bird colonies.