It looks like photos will load from this campground. We are now across the Saguenay River from Tadoussac, the whale watching mecca along the St. Lawrence.  What will we do tomorrow?  Take a zodiac whale watching cruise and hope to see beluga, blue, fin or minke whales or perhaps dolphins and seals. 
This first photo is of the interior of the Notre Dame du Cap cathedral (or is it a basilica)near Trois Rivieres. As I understand it, the difference between a cathedral and a basilica is a Pope has visited a basilica.  Today we visited Ste Anne de Beaupre basilica just east of Quebec City - no photos downloaded yet but it was a beautiful building.  A mass was just starting while we were there and the soloist filled the building with sound - great acoustics!

view from our campsite just west of Quebec city.  The old barns in Quebec are beautiful - think of you often, June, and your love of old barns!  There are so many styles and colours and materials!!

Shon by the Chutes Montmorency.  The spray from the falls was very welcome before climbing the stairs back up to the walkway at the top of the photo!!!

A minor gate in the fortification walls of Quebec City.  The major gates which everyone sees allow anyone to go through.  When they were closed, these minor gates, called posterns, were used. Their curved paths did not allow anyone to shoot through the gates.

Looking down on la Basse-Ville, the older lower part of Vieux Quebec, the part first settled by Samuel de Champlain in 1608. 

St. Alexander's Pub on rue St. Jean in Vieux Quebec (the walled part of the city) has over 200 beer from which to choose.  Quite the dilemna!  Shon chose a local beer.

Full moon (?) over Vieux Queb

ec last night as we watched The Image Mill, a sound and light show projected onto about 65 grain elevators in the old port.  We were shocked earlier in the trip to learn that many of the grain elevators in Thunder Bay are no longer operational as trains now transport much of the grain directly to ships on the St. Lawrence River, by-passing the shipping routes through the Great Lakes.

 

A wine-tasting stop during our cycling tour of Ile D'Orleans. Note the Chutes Montmorency in the background, across the St. Lawrence River.

from Ile d'Orleans, Mont Ste. Anne ski hill runs, taken from the truck as we drove the rest of the island after our bike ride.

Wish us luck on our whale watching tour - hope to have some whale photos in the next post - but don't hold your breath as there are no guarantees with wildlife (-: