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We have been mostly traveling east, I say mostly because the wind has not been cooperating as much as we might like and we’ve been bouncing around quite a bit especially at night when the wind dies out. The days are still cool but the sun has been shinning so the ice has melted from Adam’s beard – okay there was no ice but he was wearing his touque. Did we mention that it has been really cold? Although the sun has been out there is a misty haze covering the coastline and our pictures have not been able to capture the green mountain sides very well. We catch cool breezes throughout the day coming down the mountains and bringing the smell of spruce trees. Some of the mountain side is surprisingly steep and dotted with a few houses and cabins. And there are windmills are far as the eye can see! We are hugging the south shore and we can no longer see the north. Even the freighter channel seems far away. We have daily whale sightings and some sort of small dolphin that is abundant in the area. We have no idea what they are but they aren’t as friendly as their larger cousins and tend to stay a safe distance from us. A man in Rimouski told us that knocking on the boat can attach whales because they are interested by the sound – a hoax? We aren’t sure but we’ve knocked the whales don’t seem to come running.