THE GASPE PENINSULA, QUEBEC
©Spectrum Photography 2008
THE GASPE PENINSULA, Quebec, CANADA
On the warmest summer day, wildflowers sway and hayfields ripple in the cool, brisk breeze that rises off the St. Lawrence Estuary. The easy warmth of sun-drenched meadows framed by the ever-present sea belie the harshness of wintry days when snow covers the ground and ice floes threaten ships making their way up the mighty river. Here, the ancient Appalachians, stretching over 1500 miles (2400 Km) from Northern Alabama across Eastern North America, reach their continental limit to plunge into the sea. It is easy to imagine that one has reached the end of the earth when sea-mists shroud these sculpted cliffs. The Mi'kmaq, who occupied this land when the first Europeans arrived, must have thought so too because they called it 'Gespeg' meaning 'the place where the land ends.'
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Straight of Honguedo
Snowgeese
Matane Reserve Pointe au Pere
HMC Honondago, beached while attempting to dry dock as a museum at Rimouski
Eglise Notre dame des Neiges de Trois Pistoles
Le Matre
Le Matre
HMC Honondago
Migrating Eider Ducks
Cap Madeleine
Cap Madeleine Cap Chat
Cap Chat Bay of St Lawrence
Bay of St. Lawrence
Straight of Honguedo
Straight of Honguedo
Le Matre
Le Matre
Pointe au Pere
Snow Geese
Snow Geese
Migrating Eider Ducks
Cap Madeliene
©Spectrum Photography 2008