Whale-watching trip to Tadoussac (19./20.10.2002)
The next day, after not very much sleep, us, a group of five Germans, set off to discover the world of whales.
Our trip far northeast from Montréal (on the way there it took about 7 hours) was interrupted by difficult weather conditions:
But we decided nevertheless to continue our trip to Tadoussac, a small town about 250km north from Quebec city, at a place where the Saguenay fjord meets the St. Laurence river. At this place, the St. Laurence is already about 30km wide, and the water depth drops down to over 300m. Special underwater currents let the whales from the St. Laurence Gulf come directly to the coast to feed.
After spending one night at the very cosy youth hostal of Tadoussac, 4 of us went on a boat trip to see the whales. We were packed into very warm suites on top of our own clothes, but when the boat went really fast and the wind was strong, we were still freezing. I felt a bit like on a Greenpeace mission, as we were on one of these really fast rubber boats.
(Andreas, Steffi, Eva and me)
(But surprisingly, we really saw whales. I must admit that I took about a dozen photos before you could actually see anything interesting on them.)
After the whale-watching boat trip we still had some time to go on a short hike into the Saguenay fjord. The mountains in this area rise up to about 600m over the level of the fjord.
(You can see a small part of the fjord, and in the background the St. Laurence river, where it is hardly possible to see the other side.)
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