Quebec City and Kamouraska trip

Riding the great new riverside bike path along St Laurence river beside Champlain street in Quebec city


View of Quebec Bridge from Champlain street bike path


Riding along the St-Charles river, Quebec city's other great new bike path


Sculpture along the St-Charles river bike path


State of Gandhi, one of Quebec's heros


Bee hives and herb gardens on top of Chateau Frontenac roof


Chateau Frontenac's Hitchcock room (Hitch slept here during the filming of the movie the Confessional, he specifically asked for the room the the executioner for quebec jails slept, and used the same room). Notice the extremely crappy clock radio, it's surprising to see the rich getting the same radio as we wake up with every day


We took a tour of the Chateau Frontenac with the lady in blue


Tree growing over a cannon ball in Quebec city


Rooftop gardens at Musée de la civilization, better than the desert that was up there last year.


Kamouraska from above St-Pacome: lookout above ski hill at cross



Really big white goose in Montmagny (man-eating big)



Kitchen at Seigneurie d'Aulnaies, one of the drawers in the cabinet is for the latest baby


Octopus plant at excellent Jardin Van den Heyde at Université de Laval


Montmagny closes it's downtown strip for our supper strolling.


Building boats the old fashioned way at the Quebec Maritime Museum


Milling flour with water power at Seigneurie d'Aulnies



The outdoor park at Maritime museum (note: no cost to walk around this park)


Cockpit of the Bras d'Or - designed by de Havilland aircraft company


Machine room (sans giant diesel engine) of the Bras d'Or


The all-aluminum Bras d'Or before our tour inside. It's a Technological marvel and sub-hunting (in theory) cold war relic



After our visit to Grosse Ile, we were safe to enter Canada




Side of the big house at Seigneurieu d'Aulnaies: two of these windows are fake!


View from St-Pacome lookout at cross

Happy moss at St-André




Route Verte #5 between Sebka campground and St-Andre in Kamouraska


Natural Quebec scenery


Sebka camping place, no motor homes allowed


Cyclotouristas near St-André


Minor problem upon arival at Grosse-Ile (we survived)


Stained glass at Anglican church on Grosse-Ile



Sekba campsites along St-Laurence river with great view of Charlevoix mountains and coast



Dynamo room for electicty on Grosse-Ile, electricity was here many years before people on the coast got connected to the power grid


Bicyclist in 1896 on Grosse-Ile, fixies were popular back then too



Grosse-Ile is one of Canada's most important places of history


All aboard for Grosse Ile at Berthier sur Mer harbour


Arriving at Grosse ile on a very good weather day


Aboriginal spirit mask at Bassin Brown gallery in Quebec City


Basin Brown lookout, green roof, gallery, and parc


One of the wierder plants at University de Laval jardins



Zzzzzt, danger: the envirotron is activated



Mandatory Chateau Frontenac photo (and waterfront bike path)