Newton and Wendy's Year in Toronto: July Road Trip

Friday 1^st July we packed the car, grabbed a Starbucks coffee and headed out on the first leg of our epic road trip. We arrived in Montreal only to find out they did not have our reservation, after much discussion they found us a room for the night. The next morning we had more discussions, phone calls and with no solution or offer of a reduced cost in sight we made the decision to check out and give the big cities a miss. We bypassed Quebec City drove for 6 hrs ending up in Rimouski. This town is quite pretty, it is situated on the banks of the St Lawrence River. The first thing we noticed was the colour of the homes, reds, blues, greens and white.

Le Canyon des Portes de l’Efer has gorgeous waterfalls in the middle of it. The water is from the River Rimouski. We walked approximately 7kms up and down steps and with my lungs that is no mean feat but well worth it. The wooden suspension bridge gave us a bird’s eye view of the falls. Totally awesome.

These bronze sculptures are in a large park that is used by families, dudes on skateboards, cyclists and walkers.

These 3 wheeled motorbikes are weird looking and extremely popular in the Province of Quebec.

Le Bic also has a range of coloured homes. We found a covered in bridge off the main road, only a small one but still worth a look.

Today’s drive was 460kms along the coast of the Peninsula of Gaspe - WOW what a beautiful drive, every corner a picture postcard. The road was windy and mountainous. Once again the colourful homes stood out. We saw the most unusual vertical wind turbine, the biggest in the world. Waterfalls aplenty from melting snow, lighthouses on every cape.

In Saint-Georges-de-Malbaie we had a great view of the water from our motel and spent a great deal of time whale watching but with no luck, we will now have to wait for a couple of weeks for another chance. We did see this Indian Head rock and an island used for hiking.