Where we've been, what we've seen

We saw John Felice Ceprano in the river, at work on his rocks, yesterday. At Wakefield on Sunday we came across a group of Quebec folk singers in full swing, singing and playing simultaneously for the entertainment of the people who'd come by steam train. Yesterday, because of threatening rain clouds, we had a large pleasure boat almost to ourselves for an hour and heard (at least, I heard; Mum didn't have her hearing aids on) quite an interesting talk about the first of the coureurs du bois, Étienne Brulé (1592-1633), over the loudspeakers as we sailed along. Nor was today too crowded; we visited Petrie Island, where the waterlilies were in bloom, at a quiet time of the week, before walking round the heritage museum at Cumberland. (Click on the pictures to enlarge them.)