Taller Than Niagara!

(2022 Newfoundland Ep 17)

Old Quebec City has similarities to St. Augustine, FL – an interesting history, a large fort used for defense and delightful restaurants.  Both have natural features worth visiting as well. 

St. Augustine has beautiful beaches nearby and Quebec City has Parc de la Chute-Montmorency or Montmorency Waterfalls just 15 minutes east of the city.

At 272 feet, Montmorency Falls are spectacular – nearly 100 feet taller than Niagara Falls! 

Our falls visit was damp, alternating between light rain and mist from the falls.  We viewed the top of falls from a suspension bridge – only few yards away from the brink of the falls.  Far below, the flow from the falls extended to the St. Lawrence River. 

We descended a steep panorama staircase for a bottom-up view and stop at the visitor center. 

Although a cable car was available for a ride to the top of the falls where Max was parked, we decided to climb 487 stairs back to the top.  We stopped often to enjoy the views and catch our breath!

We left Quebec City the next morning and headed south towards Vermont.  The warm weather we enjoyed since coming to Canada nearly two months earlier was changing to cooler days and cold nights.  The fall colors were at their peak as we camped two nights and hiked at Quebec’s Parc national de Frontenac (Frontenac Provincial Park).  What a beautiful sight it was!

Our last night in Canada was at The Farmhouse, a Harvest Host location near our border crossing to Vermont. 

The Farmhouse is a small farm dedicated to education and poverty relief, where food grown is shared with others.   It is part of Foundations for Farming, an organization that trains small scale farmers in all aspects of farming conservation, agriculture and sustainability.  Started in 1982 by a farmer of Dutch descent in Zimbabwe, FtF is now in 11 countries. Their farming practices have been taught to more than three million farmers around the world.

We were given a tour of the farm by Serge, who picked an interesting selection of lettuce, kale and colorful flowers that we enjoyed with dinner that evening.

The next morning we rose to the sound of corn being harvested across the highway.  Before reentering the US a couple of hours later, we made a final, mandatory stop at Tim Horton’s for coffee and a donut. 

Our visit to Canada had come to a close and we were glad to be HOME!

NEXT WEEK:  autumn in Vermont and New York.