A lazy morning around the campground. We finally pack up the camper head to the dump station and then a shower finally on the road around 11 am. For the past few days we’ve scouted northward from Pinware Provincial Park so now it’s time to scout south into extreme eastern Quebec. On the border of these two provinces we stop at a Labrador Visitor Center gathering information about the general area. There we are told there is an accordion player performing tonight at the visitor center. We set up in an RV campground just up the road so we plan on attending the performance tonight.
This part of Quebec is accessible from Labrador and Newfoundland or via water in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. First stop is Blanc Sablon in Quebec but on the border with Labrador. This is where the ferry to Newfoundland Island leaves. We have reservations on the ferry for Monday morning. Instead of rushing past Labrador we are slowing down and enjoying what we experience.
A few miles south of Blanc Sablon is Quebec’s largest Atlantic Puffin colony consisting of 15,000 nesting pairs. The two islands where most of the colony nests are a bit too far away to see the puffins well and certainly too far to photograph them. While watching with our spotting scope and binos we spy some Orca Whales along with a few more icebergs. In closer to shore some loons fish and call.
We drive south along the coast for another 20 miles to an interpretive center for the history of the coast’s native people and early Basque fishermen to more recent inhabitants. The road dips down to the coast and shore where the small villages sit then cimbs several hundred feet to highlands with stunted grow with rocks strewn everywhere. The same is true to the north in Labrador. We come across an old Labrador saying that makes perfect sense, “God created Labrador in six days and on the seventh day God threw rocks at it.”
Before supper we head out to fill one of our propane tanks which emptied this morning. We get around a week to ten days on a 20 lb tank using it for cooking, refrigeration, and hot water.
At the campground we cook supper, clean up, and walk to the concert. It is mostly locals with a scattering of tourists. This part of Labrador does not revolve around tourism as do many parts of the Newfoundland Island. It’s a fun time and we head back to the camper for the evening.
Seeing North America 