Day 16
we’re on the road
again this time we're heading from Winnipeg
east towards Kenora
east towards Kenora
drove through a
couple of provincial parks with very dense bush but not very high trees
Once in Kenora we
scouted out the Safeway and stock up on food
Kenora is a very
beautiful town which sits on the Lake of the Woods
I had noticed one
of our maps that there was a scenic drive on
highway 71 which
runs south from Kenora
we took this route
and we were pleased that we had
it ran along the
shoreline of Lake of the Woods, Whitefish Bay and many
other lakes, a good road for the most part and
not much traffic
the area appears
to be a haven for sport fishermen with many resorts and float planes
still on the road
again towards Thunder Bay but around 530 we had
175k to reach Thunder Bay so we decided to
call it a day and look for a campsite
spotted a sign for Quentico provincial Park so in we go to get a site
pretty bumpy road
for 5 km from the highway
set up camp and
have dinner
sent a text to
Cheryl only to realize that it didn't send because
of no service so
I'm hoping it will send tomorrow
Winnipeg was still
quite light out at 9:30 but here it is quite dark
Wildlife sightings
so far 6 beers...oops BEARS
10 deer, 1 coyote and
a very tiny frog
Day 17
we woke
again in the morning to pouring rain
we left our chairs
outside during the night
repeat after me…..
“oh well they will dry out”
on the road around 10 AM
a nice drive
through Thunder Bay where we gassed up because
the road ahead
looks pretty bleak as far as towns go
we are now on
eastern time as we lost an hour just west of Thunder Bay
east of the town we
saw a road sign about a memorial to Terry Fox and we knew we had to stop
drove in and found
the Memorial Center with a video of Terry's run
and a huge statue stands nearby
and a huge statue stands nearby
quite a lot of
people visiting….very happy we stopped
Now on a scenic
drive from Nippigon to Marathon
beautiful drive following
the shore of Lake superior
only problem was
the pouring rain and low cloud or fog
because of the
poor weather and losing an hour and some construction on the
highway our plan
to reach Wawa today was shelved
around 5:30 we
scouted out a provincial campsite at Rainbow Falls provincial Park
young lady who
checked us and claims the weather is going to change for the better
we hope she is
right
a quick set up
without looking unhooking the truck
ate dinner,
watched a quick video then off to bed
trying to make it
to Sault Sainte Marie tomorrow
toodle-loo
toodle-loo
S, G & M
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