Nature Adventures in Canada’s Gaspe Region of Quebec
July 22, 2007 · Leave a Comment 
Recently I had an opportunity to explore the nature adventures possible in Quebec’s Gaspe region. I will always remember the cacophony of the 57,000 nesting pairs of large white birds, northern gannets, on an island called Bonaventure Island. As I hiked across the island to the site, it was encouraging to learn from the park ranger accompanying me that the recovering fishery in the St. Lawrence Seaway allows these gannets to increase their numbers incrementally each year by about three percent. Besides seeing the gannets, I enjoyed whale watching (saw some diving humpbacks), canoeing (down one of the clearest rivers on earth), sea kayaking (to see seals), and, perhaps most unusual of all, fossil viewing (to see the wonderful “Devonian period” fish-evolution fossils at Miguasha Park, which show how some fish developed lungs about 380 million years ago and climbed out onto the land.) For all these nature adventures, Canada’s Gaspe region of eastern Quebec is the site. If you plan to replicate my experience, think July or August of some future year.
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