This past Saturday, after a pleasant dinner at the house, Lisa, Woody, and I headed to a little beach community in Rimouski, a small city about 15 minutes away. We'd been here before, enjoying a walk along the beach. This time we took the hiking trail from the beach parking lot. Starting out in a field, with lots of weedy species, our expectations were relatively low. Much to our surprise, the trail soon transitioned into a walk through the woods, an interesting maritime forest on the edge of an urban environment. As the trail narrowed, and got rockier, the vegetation got more interesting. At a fork in the trail, we looped to the left and found ourselves on the headlands above the Saint Lawrence Seaway. Here, the spruce and fir trees were stunted, reflecting the thin rocky soils and periodic high winds blowing onshore. Several viewing platforms along the trail provided fabulous views of the Seaway through the evergreen trees. Particularly stunning, was the last vista, looking south along the coastline, towards Bic National Park in the far distance.
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Trail map signage
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| Stunted spruce and fir trees with Woody on the trail |
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| Wind battered trees on bluff above the Saint Lawrence River (Seaway) |
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Looking south with Bic National Park in the far distance
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Signage indicating view scape in above photo
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| Sunset from beach in Rimouski near the trailhead |
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