Homeward Bound

 It was partly cloudy, 9º, rain in the forecast when we left the campground around 8:30 and continued south on Route 323 eventually leaving the Laurentian mountains behind.  This was the same route we took coming, turned  west onto  Hwy 50  and made good time in light traffic. 

We stopped at the Chutes du Moulin viewpoint again for our comfort and instead of crossing the Ottawa River into Ontario via the bridge into  the city of Ottawa, we took Rte 148 farther west along the river and took the ferry at Quyon to Ontario.

Leaving Quebec

The Grant Beattie is an electric  cable ferry pulling itself along a submerged cable. The physical crossing distance is  1½ - 2 km and takes 5 to 10 minutes. It operates seasonally  and can accomodate up to 21 cars. We crossed with two  cars. The fare was only $18.00.

We had a short drive on the old Hwy 17 into Arnprior where we gassed up at the lowest price this trip: $1.55.3 /l at Shell. 195.5 l for $309.44.

We ate lunch and motored north on Hwy 17 through some brief but intense showers. It was an easy drive on straight highway with very light traffic .

Camping Dunromin

We arrived home at Dunromin at 5:00; our longest drive of the trip: 582 km. The mosquitos were horrendous and swarming  as we did some unpacking of Harvee Too before a late bbq dinner. I wore full bug gear.

A great trip:  24 days  

                      4,301 km