Jack’s Walk

North Beach, Perce, Quebec, ©voyager, all rights reserved

Jack and I took a stroll along North Beach this morning. This is one of our regular go-to places when we’re here because it’s just across the road from where we stay and it’s seldom busy. It’s also beautiful and full of fossils, sea glass, agates and pretty stones of many types.

Barcelona: the Zoo 1

We’re leaving the Aquarium, but stay with the animals. Zoos are something we love to visit wherever we go. The zoo in Barcelona has the perk of having not one but two species of hippos, and I love hippos. These are the pygmy hippos, which are a solitary species, quite unlike the “normal” hippos who live in groups.

Something to keep in mind the next time somebody tries to tell you about human behaviour because of chimps or something.

Pygmy hippo with open mouth

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Side of pygmy hippo

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Pygmy hippo, full length

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Backside of pygmy hippo going into a pond.

Bye!
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Jack’s Walk

Perce Rock, ©voyager, all rights reserved

It’s been a long and difficult journey this year, but we’ve finally arrived. We won’t have internet access until tomorrow, but once we do I’ll share more photos and stories. For now, I’m still posting with my phone. This is the classic tourist photo of the Perce Rock, but it doesn’t really give any idea of scale. I know a better spot to take this photo, but there are so many tourists in town today that I just couldn’t get there.

Barcelona: The Aquarium 4: Creatures of the Sea

The last images from the aquarium. Oh, and I won a bet that day. When we walked past the gift shop on our way in I swore we’d leave with one of the penguins on display. Sadly, nobody who knows my kids would have held that bet.

Head of a seahorse


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Green and blue corals


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Jellyfish in a blue light


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Jack’s Walk

Jack and I are having a grand adventure. We’re in a place called Saint Luce, Quebec with no wifi and only my cell phone to post from. We had a short walk on the beach and are now collapsed. It’s  very pretty here, but it’s also dark and I can’t do night photography. Instead, here’s the only road photo that I have on my phone today. The pretty pictures should start tomorrow.

On the way to Perce

Jack’s Walk

We had an uneventful and generally boring drive yesterday which is just the way we like it. This part of the trip is just about putting kilometers behind us and that we did…about 650 km so far. We’ll spend today in Pointe Claire (we’re all exhausted) then tomorrow we’ll get back in the car and head east again for the next leg of our journey which should take us as far as Rimouski, Quebec. We’ll spend the night there in a motel and the following day we’ll drive the last leg of the trip all the way to Perce. Thankfully, the scenery improves once we get past Quebec City and the last part of the trip is so pretty that you can almost forget that your ass is asleep and your legs are numb.

 

St. Lawrence River, ©voyager, all rights reserved

Pointe Claire Yacht Club, ©voyager, all rights reserved

Barcelona: The Aquarium 1

One of the many tourist attractions and one the kids insist on visiting every time is the Aquarium. It has a lot of thematic basins, but of course the main attraction is big shark tank with the glass tunnel. Seriously, how anybody can think of sharks as monsters after seeing them will be eternally lost on me.

Pictures are a bit on the poor side, because the light is always low and a good camera needs good light.

Shark swimming through water.

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Shark in water

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Shark in water

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