Tadoussac

Another early start! today we headed to Tadoussac which was France's first trading post on the mainland of New France. It lies at the foot of wild rounded hills the name “totouskak” means “breasts” in the Innu language

We arrived here later than planned as we had to turn back 30 mins into our journey because the crazy French driver, Paul, we have left without a passenger. I blame the girl as she should have been there by 9am and she wasn't.

As we were running late the planned 2pm trip to go whale watching was postponed until 5pm which gave us time to check out Tadoussac so I joined the Dutchies for a wander along the beach and discovered that the water was bloody freezing despite it being close to 30 degrees in the sun.

For whale watching we first had to change into warm clothes and then put on more layers in the form of some rather attractive orange and blue suits, bearing in mind it's still only 5pm and the sun was blazing, to say I was hot would have been an understatement! Once speeding along in the Zodiac boats we soon realised why we were give the suits, it was bloody cold! It was all worth the wait though as we got to see lots of whales including a mother and her calf and a couple of comical Seals doing Mere cat impressions in the water.

The Hostel we stayed in was a real hippy place and served the most amazing Mexican food and plenty of cold beer to wash it down with. We all spent the evening listening to a couple of old guys playing classics from CCR and such like on a guitar and Banjo each with a foot operated bass drum and symbol.

Still no sign of Moose!