Today we headed out with our goal of making it to Parc national de Frontenac in southeastern Quebec. The park is close to Thetford mines and Halfway between Quebec City and Sherbrooke. We heard that they had some great bike trails, so off we went.
Now it was the middle of the week, so we quickly checked and saw that there was some availability, so off we went. The one thing we didn’t count on was the fact that the province of Quebec closes all construction down for the last 2 weeks of July! Meaning that there is a lot of people out on holidays and you guessed it, when we arrived at the park there was no availability! Our luck at riding the wave of cancellations was now officially over…. Darn. Well we did take the bikes off and go for a lovely bike ride around the lake. This looked like a beautiful park to camp and we will definitely try again in the future, maybe next time with a reservation.
Google, help!!! We lucked in and found a place not too far from where we were just on the other side of the lake. Marina Camping Le Grand Blue . They had a spot for us; Yeah!! This lovely little campground had mostly seasonal camping but did have a few spots available. The people were extremely friendly and spoke English too! It had a fabulous bike path on the paved road. A restaurant and bar in the club house that had the view of the marina. We walked around the marina and watched the boats come and go; we watched the waves turn into ripples then to a peaceful calm. Part of us wished we had a boat…. but we have our dream “Winnie” who is on wheels.