Today we drove to the end of Hwy 113 where the Miscou Lighthouse is located. What a wonderful spot to have a chocolate croissant, latte macchiato and a smoothie, sitting on a terrace overlooking the Gulf of Lawrence in full sunshine. Even better when there’s a dog on the terrace.

Freshly energized, it was time to climb up the lighthouse, learning about the history of not only the lighthouse, but the various churches in the area and even about the emergency landing of a Russian aircraft in 1939 on the first non-stop flight attempt from Moscow to New York.

The Miscou lighthouse (48.00928N, 64.49293W) itself was built in 1856 and is one of the oldest in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region.

We walked along the beach, collected stones and watched the fishermen, some of whom were having pretty good luck.

On our way down from we stopped at the Miscou Island Interpretive Peat Bog Boardwalk (47.96393N, 64.52968W) where we learned about bogs and the plants that live in this acidic environment.

Fascinating were the carnivorous plants. We saw a whole moose get eaten… not really, but the bugs do succumb. Seems fair since the bugs ate us too.

The Saint-Cécile church (47.87130N, 64.63664W) hosts a baroque music festival each year which we missed by a few days. We were able to see the inside of this rather unique church.

We decided to go to Camping Lameque (47.814657N, 64.691869W), a paid campground, tonight to do laundry and some cleaning.