At school we heard a bit about the St Lawrence River. We know it’s one of the biggest and most important in the world.

But sailing on it gives a new perspective. The scale of it is just amazing.

It’s immense …

And it flows pretty quickly when it narrows … this fixed navigation marker near Montreal was being buffetted by the swift current …

As we sailed away from Trois Riviere in the afternoon, we saw this river join in … the fresh brackish water pushed to the far bank, by the flow of the mighty St Lawrence …

We passed hundreds(?) of churches (and many RV parks) …

… many beaches

… rows and rows of houses along the bank

… beautiful farms – most are long and skinny with narrow access to the river and a house on the river bank …

… ships going somewhere – maybe Chicago, nearly 2000km upstream!

Then somewhat surreally, we just sail under these bridges …

… and straight past Quebec …

… and into the night!

It’s hard to imagine this river frozen solid … they have a constant procession of icebreakers to keep it open right up to Chicago in the winter. The ice, 20 feet thick near the banks!