Friday, July 19th.

We had planned to leave today, but with forecast winds of 45 knots, we decided we hadn’t seen enough of Quebec  City yet.  It was raining hard and we waited a while, then decided to set off for Les Chutes de Montmorency – a waterfall with a bigger drop than Niagara, although not, of course, as wide.  We had a thorough soaking on the way, and arrived in sunshine.  The falls were spectacular with a footbridge across, so we could see the falls from many angles.  We had lunch on the porch of a beautiful old house overlooking flower gardens.  We set off back to the city having mostly dried out, and were rewarded with another soaking.  Back of the boat, we did some shopping, passage planning and ate on board.  The passage planning was getting more interesting.  Our destination for tomorrow (Havre de Berthier-sur-Mer), can only be entered 1.5 hours either side of low tide.  In addition, we wanted to sail around lsle d’Orleans, and plan our arrival at the end of the island, (when we turned back down the other side), for the change of current.  We think it will all work if we leave Quebec at 8am tomorrow!