We drove along highway 132 to slowly make our way towards Quebec City, not that we necessarily wanted to reach Quebec City today. We stopped early on to enjoy the view of the St. Lawrence river.
A little further on, in Saint-Andre. we visited an exquisite leather shop with purses of various leathers and furs, gloves, belts, etc. Right next door we found a photography gallery and met the very talented young photographer. Her photography wasn’t only available as prints and postcards, but also encased in acrylic as pendants and earrings.
The next town was Kamouraska, a lovely town with Victorian houses and many shops.
One house had unique figures carved out of the stumps on their front yard.
We started our shopping at a smoked fish shop where bought some incredible smoked salmon, moved on to the grocery store for fresh local blueberries and a dried pork sausage infused with red wine.
You would expect to find a chocolate shop in a town like this and we found one. A truffle and ice cream each made us very happy and the ice cream tasted better than the one from Alibaba yesterday, despite it being significantly cheaper.
We visited several more stores, including one selling beautiful pewter oil lamps made in the Laurentians but we resisted the temptation to buy one. The General Store had freshly baked baguettes which shortly became part of our lunch in conjunction with the smoked salmon and a cheese from yesterday’s cheese factory. Yummy!!!
On our way we made a detour to a wharf near Pointe-des-Orignaux which took a bit longer due to construction. We talked to a couple from Ottawa and enjoyed a strong wind and dark clouds. The wharf had a ladder leading down to the water and a fascinating composting toilet using wood chips whose product will be used to fertilize the town’s flower beds in two years.
It began to rain and our focus turned to finding a campground. After passing though several construction sites, we settled on Camping Guilnette near Beaumont. It is a large campground with many seaonal sites with curious trailer additions and a short walkway down to the St. Lawrence river.