August 2019
Vehicle:
2019 Ram 1500 Laramie Longhorn
Forest River No Boundaries 10.6
Notable Locations:
Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve
(Île Quarry, Île Niapiskau, Île Nue de Mingan, Île aux Perroquets)
Fortifications of Quebec National Historic Site
Tadoussac and Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park
Parc Nature de Pointe-aux-Outardes
Pointe-des-Monts Lighthouse
Vieux Poste de Sept-Îles
Manitou Falls
Just when I think I’ve seen the full extent of Canada’s geological glory, I find myself staring 30 feet up at a woman’s face carved into limestone.
This sculpture is not the creation of humans. This is the methodic work of centuries of erosion, carved from the remnants of a prehistoric seabed thrust skyward out of the Gulf of St. Lawrence after the last ice age. And there are dozens more of them, together making up the largest group of such monoliths in the country, scattered across the islands of the Mingan Archipelago.
