BAD TRAVELS

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Who knew there was a falls this big so close to Quebec City! It was about an hour drive from the RV park in Levis we were staying at so made for a nice day trip. Montmorency Falls owes it's name to Samuel de Champlain, who christened it in honour of the Duke of Montmorency, Viceroy of New France and Brittany in 1613. Check out the BLOG!

If you wanted to take the easy way up you could take the cable car.

But we’re not doing that, we’re going to walk up the 487 steps up the cliff!

Looks imtimidating…..we can do this right?

The views totally worth it….and our fear of heights seems to be less acute than it once was. That suspension bridge over the falls has us worried though.

On the far left there’s a hotel and restaurant you can walk to. On the right that small building is one of the zip line platforms.

View out into the St. Lawrence from one of the bridges at the top.

Those cables are all for the zip lines…didn’t seem to be operational the day we went. Walking across the bridge was enough of an adreneline rush anyways.

The bridge was surprisingly sturdy, couldn’t feel it move at all which made looking down the falls easier to handle.

Far side of the falls on top.

The Manoir Montmorency

Our lunch pit stop

Looks like the same goose we saw at the exhibit in Gatineau, QC back in August.

View out to the St. Lawrence…the bridge goes over to Ile D’Orleans. We went over to the island after finishing with the falls.

Do you Amazing Race Canada fans recongize the red and yellow clue box? These falls were one of the challenges in the final episode. Contestants had to go down cargo nets suspended from the bridge over the falls to get a clue.

You could get up close and misted on by the falls at this platform at the bottom. FYI, these falls are actually 30 metres higher than Niagara falls.

View of the platform on the way back down the stairs. Looks like there’s a permanent rainbow at the bottom.

I’m in the rainbow!

On the eastern part of the Ile D’Orleans there’s this viewing platform

View from the top, that’s Mount Ste Anne ski hill to right of Dave’s head.

The south side of the island seemed to be mostly apple orchards and on the north side, potatoes.

Old church on the island….every single little town we’ve driven through has one.

The St. Lawrence and another island in the distance.