As I mentioned in the main post of our excellent Montreal (and region) vacation in early June, all the photos I posted were from my phone, and I needed time to look through the photos I took with a “proper” camera. I’m slowly working through those, and this first post covers the early part of the trip in Hudson and the Laurentians. There’s not going to be a lot of commentary here, mainly just (I hope) pretty pictures to look at.

View of the front of the Inn.

The back patio. Sadly the weather did not cooperate for our dinner to be outside. Maybe we wouldn’t have noticed the food for the view…

Very cool ground cover flowers in the back garden.

The back lawn was set-up for a couple of weddings.

The ferry to Oka.

Looking back at the Inn from the Oka ferry.

Our first full day, in the morning we headed up to this sugar shack Justine remembered from her time. It wasn’t open, but the old, preserved buildings were pretty amazing.

The next stage of the journey was the ferry from Hudson to Oka. The first stage on our drive north and into the Laurentians.

THe sister ferry, headed back the other way.

The town of Oka, from the ferry. The first of many churches with shiny steeples.

Our stay at Suites sur Lac on Lac Superior was fabulous. Great little spot to relax. I thought I would share a few pics of the scenery around the property.

The view from our suite out across the lake.

Across the lake there was a cool rock wall. I love this old Canadian Shield landscape.

A bit of a closer view of the rock formation.

Lady slippers! I hadn’t seen these flowers in ages.

The lake was quite beautiful.

We spent one evening hanging out by the fire pit.

The dock looked great - but it was never warm enough to jump in and go for a swim.

Our one outing was a nice little hike in the La Pimbina sector of Mont Tremblant National Park, to the magnificent Chute-aux-Rats. At over 17 m high, it was a pretty nice waterfall. Sadly it was pouring rain, so the photos were not that great.

The park office. Fortunately they had a great little store as we had no bug spray and had not prepared for the onslaught!

On the hike, there were nice views of some smaller lakes.

More lake views from one of the view points.

Chute-aux-Rats

Close up view.