Today, we finally had a day of blue skies and photo ops after a couple of days of not-so-perfect weather. We travelled along the southern coast of the Gaspé peninsula, an area that brings to mind images of "Anne of Green Gables".
In any event, our primary destination was Percé (that's with an accentuer on the last letter - ie, Per-SAY).
The village of Percé is near the eastern tip of Quebec's Gaspé peninsula in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It has the expected collection of restaurants and souvenier shops, but the main attraction is the "pierced rock", as it was named by Samuel de Champlain back in the early 1600's.
Percé rock is a 450 meter long limestone formation, and apparently can be reached by foot during low tide (although we weren't there to experience that phenomenon). What struck us about it was how it appeared as we drove further away from it; from 5-10 miles away, zooming in as much as I could, it appeared to be a castle on the coast, and it adopted the color of the ocean surrounding it.
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