It's hard to see, but in this picture, there are some men working on the cliff. We were stopped in traffic on 17, the only highway through, and needed to wait for some workmen to finish their work above on the cliff face. Perhaps there would be falling rock, so thanks to the workers for stopping us!
Our first view of Lake Superior.
On Tuesday night we stayed in Lake Superior Provincial Park, in the Rabbit Blanket campground.
Our campsite was on the water, although not Lake Superior, but a small lake. We couldn't really see the water from our campsite, but there was a small trail going down to the water's edge and enough room there for a couple of lawnchairs. These pictures below were taken the following morning as we were preparing to break up camp.
On Wednesday, we continued our journey, this time going north and then swinging west. We had been told about the Magpie High Falls, so we went off the beaten path in search of them. We did find them, but we were a little disappointed. I think at times the waterfall would be very beautiful, but the waterflow was very minimal when were were there. The amount of water was controlled by a dam somewhere in the vicinity.
So, this is what we saw at Magpie High Falls:
As we travelled on Wednesday, we saw a lot of rocks, lakes, and trees. And is Ontario ever huge!
We also travelled alongside a railroad track nearly all the time, much to Rob's delight. Much to Rob's chagrin, we saw very few trains.
We stayed that night in the Rossport campground of Rainbow Falls Provincial Park. This park has two campgrounds a fair distance from each other. Rossport is on Lake Superior, and the other is on a smaller lake. At first glance, the campground was not much to write home about, with many sites and very few trees. But towards the back there were some more private sites, and we found an awesome site right on the water.
It still wasn't as private as we normally would like but the campground wasn't very full, so then it was okay. We kept hoping that the site right next to us would remain empty, but alas, it did not. A couple, who we learned were residents of Guelph, set up camp. However, for reasons unknown, they later moved to the campsite on the other side of us, which was nicer for us. We don't know why they moved - perhaps the campers on the other side of them were too noisy (although we couldn't hear them).
This picture is looking back onto the side from the pier of rocks.
There was a loon swimming on the lake.
Sunset. This picture was taken at 9:43 and it was still very bright. The sun had not yet set.
That was Tuesday and Wednesday. We had now made it to the north side of Lake Superior.
4 comments:
It actually didn't get dark for a while. I was reading until after 11 PM!
The scenery is just gorgeous!! What a breathtaking trip it must have been!
some long vacation - more than three parts just to get there!
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