Caching in Quebec

We've been out of internet range for a couple of days. But having a wonderful time. Currently in Maine and starting a multi-state cache run today. But I get ahead of myself.

We spent more than a couple of days in the Gaspesie region of Quebec. The plan had been to drive through it in one day and get to Nova Scotia, but it was so nice there that we did a lot of hiking and not much driving.

First up was a first-to-find caching attempt in a bird sanctuary near Riviere-du-Loup (Wolf River). This is supposed to be the third best birding in Quebec. I don't know about that, but there were lots of different bird calls. This was one of those caches which looks close from the parking spot, but you have to go around a pond and up the side of a mountain, so multiply the distance you expect by about 4.

Di and Andrew on the way to the cache. Rich took this picture from the top of an observation tower.


This is where we entered the woods on the mountain-circling trail. That's the observation tower in the background.


I gotta go up that!?!


We found the cache after scrabbling up and down the side of the hill. And, yes! We were first to find! We sang selections from the Hallelujah Chorus, then found a bunch of other caches on the way back down. It's a rush to be FTF on a cache so far from home.