July 22-23rd We decided that we wanted to go into the interior of Quebec rather than the coast so we drove up to Chicoutami. We stopped for lunch downtown at the river bank. Chicoutami is pretty with a great water park. The drive up, at the top of the Allutions was incredible. The wooded almost mountains are beautiful with startling lakes coming up around every corner. It was worth the drive alone. There is a big lake outside of Cicoutami and Joncquier, so that is where we planned to stay the night, but finding a camping spot was a bit of a night mare. We would drive into a private campsite and find it full of campers, no shade, too many people, too close. We would then move on. Finally, after taking picturesque side roads, when
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