Hi, All -- About five days ago Bob and I took a short ferry ride to Tadoussac, the northern side of the opening to Saguenay Fjord, which flows in and out of the St. Lawrence. We spent two nights in that little village and did some whale watching as you can see in the last blog. Then we drove down the northern side of the fjord, around the lake at the end, Lake St. Jean, and came back on the southern side, about 350 miles altogether. The photos that follow are of the fjord, around the lake, and an historic village, Val-Jalbert -- a village and pulp mill built around a waterfall beginning in 1901. In 1927 the mill abruptly closed and everyone was forced to leave. The little village sat for over 40 years, decaying,
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