Saturday, June 1, 2019

Ottawa River

May 31


Ontario is big.  It’s huge.  We’ve been driving across this province for days and days.  Ok, maybe we’re slow, but we’ve been putting on the miles.  Today we will get to Quebec.

We drove into Pembroke (still in Ontario) for a coffee break and to see the Ottawa River.  We’d been in this town before so had an idea of what we might find.  But last time we weren’t pulling a long trailer so the question was where to park.  Once that was solved, we wandered around downtown to discover that the coffee shop we’d been to before was no longer there.  We found another place, no, not Tim Horton’s. As for the river, we didn’t have very good access on the one street because of sandbags, and saw that the park we’d gone walking in, several years ago, was under water.  





As we drove through Ottawa, we had a glimpse of the Ottawa River rapids flowing high and hard.  We arrived at the L’Escale campground north of Montreal and set up.  It seemed to have been spared some of the flooding, but saw flooded streets and parks in the area. 

We went for dinner at my cousin’s home, Marjorie and Martin.  It was a wonderful evening of catching up on life as it’s been many years since we’ve visited together.  Tomorrow they will show us the sights of Montreal and area.

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