After breakfast we left our great campground and drove to Projet Éole, a wind farm nearby which has the world’s largest vertical axis wind turbine. This was built as a research project in the 1980s to study and improve the efficiency of wind mills. The wind mill was commissioned in 1987 and shut down in 1993 as the efficiency of horizontal wind turbines improved.

The wind mill is 110 metres high with a 350 ton rotor and 100 ton alternator, producing 3.8 megawatts of power. The two guides were terrific and provided lots of information, both technical and historical.

The next major stop was at Couleur Chocolat in nearby St. Anne des Monts for ice cream and blueberry sorbet dipped in dark chocolate. The chocolatier, Carl Pelletier, is a very precise man and creates many diverse types of chocolate goodies, four of which joined us on our trip. Three remain.

Exploramer is an interactive museum about the St. Lawrence and the fascinating life that exists within its waters. We learned so much about invertibrates such as squid and octopus. Did you know that octopuses have three hearts and blue blood? Now you do!

At 3:30, there was an interactive learning event with touching various sea creatures like starfish, sea urchins and lobsters.

It is definitely worth a visit!

The last stop for today was the glass blower Le Cueilleur de Verre. We had seen some of his work at Exploramer but he has even nicer marine life inspired pieces in his workshop, and we were unable to resist taking home a memory.

It was getting late and we hadn’t made it very far, so we decided to return to the Phare Cap Chat campground for another night. We received a very friendly welcome.

Before going to sleep we walked down to the waterfront and along the beach.