Les Écumeurs du St-Laurent

Whales!

The whales, the largest mammals living today on planet always fascinated the man and his imaginary. Let us think has what come us has the spirit, Moby Dick, this cachalot which became famous for the novels and films while being a fiction. Jules Verne and marine monsters, as the explorers who believed as the whales sinked the boats, yes these whales were and are always present in our world.

After having pursued them and almost exterminated in the last centuries for their oil and baleens we are now in our time knows much more form those mammals and are conscious of their value, non pecuniary but ecological.

Today it is possible to make their observation in a privileged place which is the deep channel of the St. Lawrence river, inside the limits of a marine park, the marine Park Saguenay St-Laurent.

Les Écumeurs du Saint-Laurent www.lesecumeurs.com offer to lead you to discover these whales which go up most of the St. Lawrence river up to the level of the area of the mouth of the Saguenay river and Escoumins. Our departure dock is located near the deep channel of the St. Lawrence, where the whales come to feed in summer to benefit from abundance of the food offer by the estuary of the St. Lawrence .

What is very important to note is that we guarantee the quality of our observation like your satisfaction.

Who are the Les Écumeurs du Saint-Laurent?

We are a small company of excursion which is specialized in the observation of the whales from designed boats Zodiac type especially for this purpose, of a capacity of twelve passengers each one, which return the experiment more personalized.

Our mission is to make discover in the respect the whales and to sensitize people with the brittleness of the marine environment.

Our captains are trained to give you all useful information so that your experiment is most advantageous possible for you. We guarantee the satisfaction of our visitors and that is possible thanks to the size of our company which enables us to give a personalized service.

Where let us be us?

The Écumeurs du Saint-Laurent are based in Escoumins, a small picturesque village with accessible people located any meadows of Tadoussac, that is to say has approximately 2h30 drive from Quebec city on northern bank of the St. Lawrence. We are located in the tourist area Manicouagan. The area is full of attractions and various activities related to nature and ecotourism. Sea Kayak and river,various fishing excursions, visit of the Fjord of Saguenay, various centers of interpretations, on the marine environment, the whales, the salmon ect.

Which whales can we observe?

The blue whale

We have the chance considering the place in the park or we are located at the edge of the depp channel of the St. Lawrence to be able to observe the blue whales when they visit us, the largest alive mammal on planet, with sometimes its 30 meters length and its 120 tons, a few hundreds of individuals is still present in the whole world, it is a species very protected.

The common fin-back whale

The common fin-back whale, second larger whale with its 50 tons and its 20 meters length, it is often groups some and moves very quickly

The humback whale

The humback whale, this traveller who goes up each year from the Caribbean to visit to us is by far the whale the most spectacular to observe for the grace of his diving when it shows his tail at every dive.

The Sperm whale

The sperm whale, legendary thanks to Moby Dick, seldom come but at least once per season, even with its 300 meters of depth, the St. Lawrence is not deep enough for him which finds its food between 300 and 3000 meters of depth. Difficult to observe because its divings last approximately an hour. It is a privilege to observe one of them.

The Minke whale

The Minke whale called in the Québécois jargon Gibard which measures of 8 A 10 meters and sometimes 10 tons is numerous and very coastal, hunting out its food close to shoreline in our area, easy to observe from the shore. It is a very fast whale and fun whale which is very active and often approaches our boats without fears.

Bélouga

Bélouga, this small white whale, permanent resident of the St. Lawrence is a protected species and its observation is very regulated.In the year 50 this whale was killed by human because we thought belouga was eating the fish spécies who was caught by fishermen, belouga was also use as a target for practicing for the war plane, belouga was also hunteds in the last century for his oil !! today authorithés give you a fine if we approaches them too near. We are the place in the world or Bélouga is present if at the south latitude. It is a whale which one generally observes in the far North.

Our boats,

Of Zodiacs type, our boats were drawn and conceived for the observation of the whales, stable and safe of a capacity limited of twelve passengers, it ensures a visit personalized with our qualified captains interpreters who provide you all relevant information during the observations.

We hope to meet you and make you live this marvellous experiment of discovered whales.