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.
Another one of the swallow pics, this time being nicely framed by the reeds.
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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.
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Bye!
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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.
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.
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Another one of the swallows, a young fledgling that sat in the bougainvillea on its first day out.
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Obviously. some fish were a tad more cooperative when it came to having their picture taken.
Scorpion Fish, I think
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I guess I found Nemo
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A Eurasian Serlin
They live at the camp site, too, and they are damn loud.
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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
The tiny starfish were among my favourites, looking like straight out of a fairy tale
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Back to the swallows. An estimated 500 pictures yielded some actually nice ones.
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My pics aren’t the greatest either. The big lense needs a lot of light, so I had to use long shutter times and as silly as it sounds, the moon is a moving object. Anything above 1 second and it starts to blur and I had to do 8. It was also so dark that I had a hard time finding it through the searcher at all and the focus was guesswork.
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Moon and Mars
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Probably the best one
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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.
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