CAP-A-L-AIGLE

August 7, 2011

We will spend the day here since the Wx forecast is for NE'ly winds 10-20 kts.  We're starting to meet several interesting sailors and characters.  Maybe tomorrow will bring a better forecast.  Also, I'm considering skipping the Tadoussac Whale Watching trip.  I have a feeling that it is going to be "zoo scene" over there with tour boats jockying for position.  Additionally, the marinas are on a "first come- first serve" basis so I don't know if we will find a spot.  Lastly, there are terrific currents and Tide Rips at the mouth of the Saguenay River.  The area is prone to fog.  I don't want to get caught up and stuck there for several days.  It's only 40 nm from here.  The other option is to cross over the St Lawrence River from here and anchor in Port De Gros Cacuna.  This puts us oe the South and East shore of the Gaspe pennisula and heading in the right direction.  We got this information from a fellow French yachtsman who has anchored there many times.  Supposedly, you have to get permission but the French are like the Spanish: who bothers with "permission".  It's their country and they'll go where they want.  I can remember a time in Toledo, Spain, on the banks of the Tajo River, when we were poaching fish with our Spanish friends just below a dam patrolled by the Military on the walls above.  Americans are "rule of law" and permission oriented people.  The French and Spanish have so many rules and law decrees that they obey what they want and dismiss the rest.