Departed Cap-Aux-Os and traveled 1 ½ hours to Grande Vallee, QC, on the northern coast of the Gaspe Peninsula along the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Checked into Camping Soleil Couchant (Sunset Camping) for 50 amp full hookup. Campground is right on the beach with a beachfront view out the front of our coach. The beach was unusual in that instead of horizontal layers they were vertical, with various jagged rock layers protruding. It made us alert to where we stepped during our walk along the beach. Although a few others were on the beach, no one was in the water. The town of 1,062 does not have much to do but it does have 2 very nice groceries which we visited. We bought a package of Schwartz’s Deli Smoked Meat, a Montreal favorite we have had in the past, together with some poutine cheese and some frozen french fries. Smoked meat (similar to pastrami) and poutine dinner was great. Rosemary had a cheese omelet (not with poutine cheese). After dinner we walked the beach to watch the sunset, me in long pants for the first time on this trip and Rosemary with two jackets. Nice but a bit hazy so we did not get the beautiful colors that sunsets can produce. We did see a brief glimpse of a whale, but after two surfaces it disappeared. Then a drive into “downtown” to view the lighted cove cliff that is the town’s claim to fame. Funny, but not much to see and I take it not too famous.
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