Lighthouse at the entrance to the Sageunay.
This is an interesting lock. In the winter, they flood the interior and bring their boats into the lock and place them on stands. Then they pump out the water for boat storage over the winter. In the summer they use the area as a parking lot.
The dry dock as a parking lot in the summer.
The
Cetacean visitors center at Tadoussac.
Messing around with the panoramic feature of the camera in town.
Minor jiggle at the last moment.
Interesting carvings
A major hotel at Tadoussac.
Tadoussac Harbor
Panoramic picture of the Saguenay.
The Canadian Coast Guard on a run. The went past me in a rush then turned around a mile up river, then proceeded back to where they came.
Entering the Bale Eternite'. This bay is about 45 miles up the Saguenay and there are only 6 moorings. If you don't get a mooring, you have to go back at least 6 miles to find another place to anchor. This is because it is so deep just a few feet from shore that anchoring locations are extremely limited.
On the hiking trail, I spotted this tree, and it's determination to survive despite it's location.
The statue is Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay and dedicated by Charles Napoleon Robitaille who almost lost his life in the Saguenay "thru misadventure" and vowed to build a statue to commemorate his salvation.
The statue is carved white pine and covered in sheets of lead to protect from the elements. It was carved in 1881 by Louis Jobin and is 9 meters high and weighs 3 tons. To get the statue to the Bale was the easy part but carrying it up the side of the mountain was another story. It happens that the men eventual cut the statue in parts to be carried up to its final location and then reassembled. For comparison the statue of Christ in Brazil was constructed in 1926 and is 30 meters high.
Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay
Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay
Notre-Dame-du-Saguenay from a distance.
Back down the fiord to Tadoussac for the evening, I anchored in the small cove next to the marina and watched the fog roll in.
The fog keeps rolling in.
In the morning I pulled anchor and started heading toward my next stop; Rimouski. I spotted some more Belugas off the starboard. Because of the winds and current, leaving the helm was tricky. I was luck to get this only picture as proof that I did see them.
