Bonaventure Island, Quebec
We never set foot on Bonaventure Island.
The captain of the Silver Cloud (the little sissy) determined that the water was too rough to launch the zodiacs.
On these expedition cruises it's quite rare that the ship gets to dock at a port. I think there was only one day on this cruise where we were actually docked (excluding the embarkation and disembarkation days in St. John's). Every other time we have to take zodiacs to the shore. When the water is rough it makes it tricky for certain people (i.e. the old, fat ones who can barely walk on flat calm land) to get into the zodiac. Those of us who want to and who would easily be able to get into the zodiac boats in rough water are prevented from doing so.
So we sailed for Gaspe instead hoping the water would be calmer - NOPE.
So we just sailed around all day...bummer.
Bonaventure Island sounds like an interesting place. Read about it here.
Considering that we didn't do much today there are only a few pictures.
We did sail by some pretty interesting scenery though.
And the sea really is pretty rough. I'm not surprised the captain would not allow the zodiacs to be launched in this water.
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And I think (but I'm not sure) that this is Bonaventure Island where we were supposed to visit today.
It's home to tens of thousands of northern gannets and I think that's what we're seeing in the shots below.
A beautiful ocean sunset.
And one of the things we like about sailing on Silversea is the Hot Rocks dining. You eat outdoors, on the pool deck, and cook your own meal (just the meat) on a heated chunk of lava rock. It can be quite chilly as shown below.
On this trip we did the Hot Rocks meal three times.
That's if for a sailing day.