Forillion National Park is a hiking park with very few interior roads. Highway 132 bisects thee park on the east side and from there there are two smaller roads that will take you into the park a couple of miles at which point there is a parking lot and several trail heads. From what we have heard from other people there are moose and black bear in the park along a diverse variety of smaller animals. We have only seen birds and seals – we hope to see whales and dolphins at some of our other stops however the ultimate for me would be to see one or two moose. I will also do some fishing.
While at Cap-Bon-Ami we walked down the stairs to the beach and were right at the waters edge. June Yvonne relaxed a little on the beach while I explored down the beach a ways. I had seen another man walk down the beach and he disappeared behind a large rock so I though I would check it out. When I got to where I had last seen him the tide had come in and the waves, in my view, were a little risky so after trying to make a dash in between the waves I soon realized that I wasn’t fast enough and was going to get very wet if I made the attempt.
I like to watch the waves rolling into the shore or crashing against a rock face. I watched a small rock rolling up the shore pushed by a wave and then suck back down the shore by another wave. Do this thousands of times and the little rock soon erodes away and becomes sand. I watched the waves crash up against a solid rock face and notice where the waves could reach they had undercut the rock. It reminded me of an old Buddha quote I heard a long time ago; “In the confrontation between the water and the rock the water always wins, not through strength but through persistence.”
Our neighbors, Andy and Joanne, are very sociable and invited us to join them for a late night campfire. They are from Whitby Ontario which is between Toronto and Ottawa. We had great conversation about Quebec and Ontario and about French versus English. They told us when we go to Halifax stop at Pier 31 and if you can figure out the approximate date your grandparents immigrated from England to Canada they can probably get the immigration papers for you and if your lucky maybe a photograph. They have traveled a lot and are very knowledgeable about a lot of places. They frequent Phoenix so we hope they look us up the next time we are there. PRC
Canadian Maritime Provinces 