Madawaska

August 1st, Colonel By (a.k.a. Civic day) meant a day off from work and time to explore the Calabogie region. We headed up the 417 to Arnprior...leading to the 17 then turned west onto route 508 following the Madawaska river. Spot the canoeist.

After a stop for a cuppa and watching the fish (trout?) jumping for their snacks we continued to on the 508 until we turned south onto the 511. A little way down we turned east, south, east and south again, all of it on route 9 through the hamlet of Tatlock. We saw a sign for the Tatlock Quarry outlook and naturally had to take a look. The road is a private road, apparently not maintained but in reasonable shape anyway (better than the Ville-Marie in Montreal!).

The quarry was used to extract marble but is now disused. It's larger than it looks in the picture, it was quite a way away and maybe the white does something.....