We had a wonderful sleep in the lighthouse parking lot. After a quick breakfast we headed to the information centre and met two very nice guides, one of whom gave us an extraordinary tour of the lighthouse, the museum with detailed information on the lighthouse keepers over the years, and the first maritime Marconi wireless station in Canada. We learned a great deal about the importance of lighthouses and the history of this particular one. It had been disassembled in 1975 after it was decommissioned and sent to Quebec City. In 1997, an effort by three women and the town was successful in returning and restoring it to its present (non-functioning) state.

The glass fresnel lens is huge, measuring 6×8 feet and was manufactured in France. The mechanism that turned the light originally had been a clock-like mechanism involving a weight that had to be wound every few hours. This was one of the jobs of the lighthouse keeper and his family. The first lighthouse keeper and his wife had 12 children, some of whom lived their entire lives at the lighthouse.

The Marconi wireless station was another highlight. Marconi was the first person to successfully transmit messages wirelessly and the first to do so over the Atlantic. Although none of the equipment exists anymore, there was a fabulous exhibition on the life and accomplishments of this high school dropout who ended up earning a Nobel prize for his work.

After enjoying the view of the St. Laurence River we left for the Forillon National Park where we got one of the last two campsites which will be our home for the night. The campsite is designed for tents and has a fairly steep slope so we had to use our levelling blocks under the front wheels so that we are mostly level.

We enjoyed a short walk to the gravel beach with Ruth testing the waters while thunder was rumbling in the background. Lots of photographs of the amazing rock formations were taken while Pepsi hunted for seafood shells.