Percé, Province de Québec

The Rocher Percé and Île-Bonaventure in the sea, with more pictures of this charming coastal village of Percé below.

Percé is a very pleasant village tremendously blessed with natural beauty. It not is comfortably nestled between the sea on one side and the mountains on the other, in the interior, but it has a very famous, huge rock very near the edge of the cliffs that mark the end of the mainland. That rock, the Rocher Percé (Perce rock in English) is completely surrounded by water at high tide, but you can walk there at low tide. We did not walk there this time around, but we did back in 1991, the first time we visited the region. 

Nearby, the mountains feel more like rolling hills. But here, they are actually very rugged (especially for the East Coast), and surely offer some great hiking. Had we not been so pressed with time, I would have loved to have gone on at least one or two hikes myself here. 

The contrast between the heights of these mountains and the sea nearby is truly striking! And the greenery of the region completes that feeling that this place has truly been blessed with unique beauty to be appreciated!

This is home to the Île-Bonaventure-et-du-Rocher-Percé National Park. The Île-Bonaventure is an island within east view of Percé, although we did not get to see visit it this time around. But it is home to one of the largest colonies a unique species of birds - the Northern Gannet. 

All of that - the national park, the sea, the mountains, as well as the rich farmland and the lush greenery of the countryside in this region more generally, make this a very fascinating and memorable place to visit, full of history and beauty!

Here are some of the pictures that I took while there:

Mountains on one side, the cliffs next to the sea on the other, and some beautiful pastoral scenes in between.

Île-Bonaventure

Le Rocher Percé 

This mountain in the distance kind of reminded me of some of the pictures that I have seen of Table Mountain, which looms over Cape Town! It looked absolutely beautiful here in the distance, with rich, green grass and farmland closer by.



Just beautiful...