Wednesday, July 3, 2019 - Campground Municipal de Beauport

Quebec City.

Bruce and Shannon spent a night in their camper in the dealership lot just short of Montreal. The broken fan belt was repaired by 9:30. They had a lovely breakfast and trundled on down the road toward New Brunswick, or the rest of the crowd, whichever came first.

Meanwhile the rest of the crowd had a leisurely morning awaiting word of the broken RV left behind. As is sometimes the case, serendipity arises and both groups depart at the same time, planning on meeting up for a shared campsite in the afternoon.  We decided to camp early and head into the Old City the following morning.

There’s not much to say about following the Trans Canada Highway through Quebec other than in some places the road surface seems to have been involved in a war, and in others it’s newly paved and sounds as if were running on glass. Sure, there are farms and fields and trees and rivers, but they really are the same as those in Ontario. French doesn’t make them any different.

We’re doing fine cruising down the highway at 95 – 100, trucks passing us easily, cars dancing past at high rates of speed, but we’re fine as we are.  Coming into Quebec Cities precincts there are many more merging roads, clover leafs and construction. Traffic intensifies. Transiting the city takes some considerable concentration. We arrive at the campsite and work to make sure we can get the three units in for the night.

Simply some chairs

Helene and Jean-Guy visit and spend an hour exchanging tales in fractured language, both French and English. It’s a lot of fun and laughter, the best. Most of the gang heads to the pool for a late afternoon dip, much appreciated in this hot weather. There are a few mosquitoes but it’s certainly bearable.

Habitat for the long-nosed red turtle, a menace to the local turtles.

I read in French that the long-nosed red turtle, coming from Louisiana and up the Mississippi with the help of we humans, is threatening the local population of turtles and therefore please do not import long-nosed red turtles. I wonder how many Quebeckers travel to Louisiana to import long-nosed red turtles? Perhaps they only needed two.

We’ve decided to stay another night so that we can spend the day in the Old City and visit the Plains of Abraham. C’est bon.