There was a fog in the valley of the St Lawrence this morning which sometimes spilled over onto the road way as we continued towards the ferry over the Fjord du Saguenay and the town of Tadoussac on the north shore of the fjord. For us Tadoussac was simply a stop for internet and fuel though for others it is a center for whale watching. We ran a foul of local parking ordinances but after some discussion the police lady who was threatening to give us a ticket instead lead us (on her motor scooter) to the top of town and a gravel parking lot next to a skate park (coordinates for other hapless RV drivers who get stuck in this town are N48.14757 W69.71359)

We spent the day ambling along 138 stopping from time to time at roadside picnic areas or scenic pullouts to admire the views of beaches and the St Lawrence. At one stop, which sported a tall white obelisk and a couple of dinosaur statues and a gravel parking lot we witnessed an amusing scene as three workpeople (one was a young lady) set about the task of erecting some new signs. The sign advised dog owners to "pickup after their dog" but Nina interpreted the sign as "bury your dogs business after he/she is finished". The amusing thing about this is that after failing to drive the sign into the ground using the big front shovel on their tractor it took 30 minutes to scrape out a 2 ft deep hole with the digger on the rear of the tractor. All through this episode Nina was in fits of laughter pointing out that even with an excavating machine digging a hole was a challenge how was some poor dog owner going to do it by hand.

At the end of the day we rolled into the town of Baie-Comeau. This is clearly an industrial and service town. There is a substantial port, a paper mill, (apparently - we have not seen it yet) an aluminum smelter and a number of heavy engineering businesses but in addition has some lovely water front parks and some more of those quaint houses. It also turned out to be an RV friendly town as the local tourist office pointed out to us that we could park overnight (free!) in Pioneer Park right on the harbor shore.

After finding the park and selecting a space near three other RVs we walked the local streets admiring and photographing some of the houses.