Saguenay, Canada

For the next day we sailed to Saguenay, a beautiful little town of some 130,000 hardy inhabitants. Winters get some 16 feet of snow and sub zero temperatures. Jeez, We were greeted at the wharf by freezing temperatures and a happy troupe of some 30 dancers and singers

Our excursion took us to a small, but very fun combo museum/aquarium, the Musée du Fjord.

Following the museum, our guide regaled us with stories about the The Saguenay flood, a series of flash floods on July 19 and 20, 1996 that hit the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region of Quebec. It was the biggest overland flood in 20th-century Canadian history. We visited a house right at the center of the flood. It survived because the owner had a premonition of the catastrophe and literally bolted the house to the rock before the floods. Amazing.Read more