Day 8 coast NE of Tadoussac, Quebec

Ten less-than-inspiring images posted late tonight, all taken in the morning of 14 May 2018, Day 8 of our two-week holiday in Ontario and Quebec. Hopefully, I might be able to get a few more photos edited and uploaded in the next few days, especially if the weather forecast actually turns out to be accurate - i.e. snow for the next three days. It has been about eight months since friends and I returned from this amazing holiday, so I have forgotten all the French names of the various places we drove to during our week in Quebec, I will try and research some of them tomorrow.

Too tired to do anything further tonight after a day that didn't turn out how I had expected. After seeing the forecast for snow, I thought I had better make another drive east of the city. I had been hoping to see a Short-eared Owl, but there was no sign of it. Next plan was to drive some of the back roads in search of a Snowy Owl or two. However, once again, I left Calgary in sunshine and found myself driving in fog, just like another recent day. Today was not such dense fog, but everywhere was heavily overcast. I had only driven two gravel back roads and was just doing a U-turn when my car started making a dreadful noise - a rather metallic scraping sound. No warning lights came on on my dashboard, which was promising, but that loud noise persisted the whole drive back to the city from east of Langdon. I drove straight to the dealership and they were able to take a look at it this afternoon. When it was taken for a test drive, it made no noise, apparently - of course! Most likely, a rock or piece of gravel had got into the brakes and it became dislodged when the mechanic drove it. My car is in good condition, I was told, but I definitely thought I was going to be stuck out east earlier today, ha.

More info on Day 8 will be added tomorrow.