Parc des Ha! Ha!
One review for Parc des Ha! Ha!
1 review in English
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Review from Brian S.
11/9/2009 13 photos
A small park
with a big
sense of
humor.
The Ha! Ha! Park is located on the Ha! Ha! Bay and contains the Ha! Ha! Pyramid. Obviously someone thought this place was pretty funny.
The park is relatively small, containing a few benches and tables but has fantastic view of Ha! Ha! Bay and the surrounding hills. The dominating feature of the park is the bizarre Ha! Ha! Pyramid, a huge aluminium building that was built to commemorate the devastating flood of 1996. I didn't know about the pyramid when I first went to La Baie and the sun reflecting off the sloped sides was a surprising and strange sight. It literally can be seen for miles when the sun is right and will definitely make you wonder what the hell it is if you haven't seen it before.
I could not find a way into the Pyramid but it does have a door so I suspect that it is open on occasion. I walked around the structure looking for another way in but several local people stopped to stare at me and since I didn't particularly want to spend the night in the Ha! Ha! jail, decided to move on.
I did want to know why everything was named Ha! Ha! around here so I asked one of the indigenous people. Unfortunately her English was almost as bad as my French but with much pointing, gesturing, grunting, stomping and verbalizing the words ha, ha she managed to get the idea across. The town is located on a truncated part of the Saguenay Fjord that doesn't lead anywhere. So I guess it fooled a lot of the early explorers into taking a wrong turn and then having to turn back. So many people made the mistake that the town of La Baie was born.
A unique and interesting little park that is worth visiting just for the incredible views of the water and hills, the bizarre pyramid and hearing all the local people saying Ha! Ha! when talking.Listed in: Very cool places...., Strange Places, In the wild, wild north
