CANEAST 2019

SEPT 12 We returned to the fromagerie for some more yummy cheese.  On the way home, we snapped a few pics of the colourful houses in the area.  The homes on the island are uniquely coloured and never identical.  Here are a few of Elizabeth’s favourite colour combinations and one for our friend Nan. For Nan After lunch it was a short drive to “le flaneur.”  The owner of this tea house and gallery is an amazing artist.  She was born and raised on the island.  The tea house/shop displays her work which consists of many forms of art including caricature/mannequins that are fashioned using epoxy.  I believe that she has a different theme each year and creates people accordingly.  This year is an exhibit of well-known and remarkable people from the islands.  She paints them first and then creates the life-size characters.  In her front yard is La Jardine D’Esprit wi...

SEPT 9 Today is a bright sunny fresh day and about 15C.  Yesterday we moved the trailer to a new site as we were concerned that a downed hydro pole just up from our site would pull more poles down and hit us.  Right after we moved, 4 Hydro Quebec trucks pulled in and replaced the broken (yes broken at the base) pole.  We had our hydro back around 11:00 p.m. after being out for about 24 hours. Our trailer was right in line with these poles! Right after we moved our trailer worried that the lines would come down on us, the Hydro folks showed up and replaced the broken pole! So, the wind is lowest since we arrived and decided to cycle to La Grave at the end of the island.  It was further than we thought and much windier.  We did a 180, had lunch and returned to Clifford.  After loading, we journeyed back down and ended in a café in La Grave.  Then shopping in some of the tourist traps.  We ...

SEPT 5 We spent hours on the beach today relaxing.  Elizabeth went in for a dip.  I was too chicken. SEPT 6 We’re getting ready for the possibility of a severe storm – the tail end of hurricane Dorian.  Hopefully all will be ok. It was a nice sunny day and we ventured to the other end of the island, Grosse-Ile.  This area is predominantly English.  We stopped at the salt mine (part of Windsor Salt and all part of a larger international corporation) and had a very informative tour at the interpretive center with a half hour talk and slide show given by Lucy.  The islands were created on top of seven salt domes that rose up from the bottom of the sea.  The dome here is the closest one to the surface, one of the main reasons for placing the mine there.  All the mining is done underground and about 150 people are employed year-round.   They produce a salt product ready for winter ro...