Colors of water

...hugging the coast

Hey, it's my turn to play with words! Yes, it's Rover writing today. I told Denise she had to share...

We started the day with another excellent breakfast. Jacques is trying to get Denise to enjoy eating flowers. She tasted each flower that decorated her breakfasts, but she says that so far she hasn't found one with a taste that appeals to her. Today's breakfast deoration? It was a very pretty tiny purple pansy.

Oh, you want to know about the real food? Breakfast started with fruit, oranges, pears, and those fabulous wild blueberries. The dish looked like an artist had been at work. Then, poached eggs. That was a real treat.

It was a driving and walking and riding kind of day. We started by heading a little south of Bathurst before we picked up the road that would carry us to the northeast. The first part of the ride was surrounded by trees, and then the road started to hug the coast. Oh! That part of the road would be good for riding. You do know that Dense prefers riding where she has an interesting view, don't you?

The water showed two distinct colors. The swatch close to shore was a reddish brown, and then there was a sharp line where it turned to a deep blue. We were following Chaleur Bay, and as we looked across the water we could see the hills of the Gaspe Peninsula in the distance.

Denise drove to the end of the Acadian Peninsula, across Ile Lameque, and Ile Miscou. She was going to leave the car in Lameque and ride to the end of the peninsula and back again, but I convinced her that it would be better to drive and to do some loops on the bike a little later (I figured she'd get bored with a long out-and-back ride...). That's exactly what we did! First, we drove to the end to see a lighthouse. Huh. I wonder why the lighthouses here all seem to have cables running from (near) the top of the light to the ground. The wind was very strong today, but do you think it is strong enough to make these tall skinny buildings fall over?

At the tip of the land, the water we saw to the east was the Gulf of St. Lawrence. We'll watch that water tomorrow too, at least until the edges of Prince Edward Island are across from where we're wandering. The the water becomes Northumberland Strait. I still don't understand how there can be borders in the water. Oh, Denise just asked me how there are borders on the land. I guess they are all imaginary, aren't they?

Back to today's wanderings...

We stopped a couple of times on the way back to walk, to stroll around a boardwalk, to soak in the beauty around us. When we got back to Shippagan Denise found a place to leave the car, and we just wandered a bit on the bike. We went to the edges of the land, and we tried to get ride up to a lighthouse where we saw lots of kites in the air. Oops! We rode out from Shippagan, following the road out to a boat harbor. We went to the end of the road, and we stared at the lighthouse across the water. It turns out that it was on a spit of land that you had to get to from Lameque. Denise thought really hard about wandering back over there and trying to find that road, but it was already late in the afternoon. It was time to stop.

We're in Tracadie-Sheila, and our home for the night is Le Chateau d'Acadie B&B. Tracadie-Sheila is still pretty far north, and we'll have a bit of a drive in the morning to get to our wandering spots for the day. Denise wants to wander in Kouchibouguac National Park, and in Bouctouche. I hope that the weather doesn't interfere too much... Today was unbelievably beautiful, a cool morning warming just a tiny but, blue skies all day. And the wind! When the forecaster this morning said 'wind at 40', well my first thought was miles per hour. It was 40 kilometers per hour though, more reasonable, but still really really windy. Tomorrow? The forecast calls for rain. And it's not a wishy-washy forecast showing a percentage chance of rain. It just says rain. Hmmm... Well, I can hope, can't I? It just might be a day for walking in the rain. I know Denise has a rain jacket and a rain hat, and an umbrella too. I'll just hide in her rain jacket pocket if it gets too bad.

Please send a wish to the weather wizard for a partial dry day for us. I already expressed my wish; maybe the wizard will listen to you.