After breakfast we hit the road. Decided to by pass Forillon National Park and headed straight to Gaspe. Gaspe along with most of the centres on the Gaspie pennisular is made up of many little villages, usually about 4 to 6 km's apart. This is confusing when you are looking for a particular B&B (Gite in French). Our first stop was Perce, a very attractive town on the coast. It has an island a few hundred metres off shore which has a stack, arch etc. It can be walked to at low tide, but was closed due to the danger of falling rocks. We walked along the coast line, looked at a piece of art, that was to represent sea birds and white caps etc. When walking out to the end of the wharf we were offered a boat trip around Bonaventure Island and Perce rock. It was a good trip (about 1 1/2 hours). The island of Bonaventure is a provincial park, it has Grey seals and thousands of gannets (largest concentration in the world?). We could have walked to the colony on the island, but due to time constraints had to push on. It then stated to rain (cyclne Hanna). Found a great B&B at New Carlisle. Mansion Hamilton. It was like staying in a museum. All the rooms were full of antiques from the 1800's. A big stone building. Wonderful night.
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