NATURE ET DE FAUNE - NATURE AND WILDLIFE
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Many ports in the St. Lawrence estuary, on both north and south shores, offer whale watching excursions daily from May through October. The best places for cetaceans are the Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park (with numerous departures from Tadoussac, Baie-Sainte-Catherine, Rivière-du-Loup and Trois-Pistoles), the Mingan Archipelago National Park Reserve of Canada (Duplessis) and the Forillon National Park of Canada, in the Gaspésie. The experienced guides on these trips are renowned for their knowledge, not only on the whales, but on their habitat as well as on other ecotourism subjects. There are very strict regulations on the speed of the observation boats and their minimum distances from these marine mammals in order not to disturb them.