Living History - Day Three

Today took us deeper into Ontario, as we visited Lake Superior Provincial Park, Pancake Bay, drove towards Lake Huron and ended in North Bay. We stepped back in time by viewing some native pictographs and spent our lunch time picnicking and playing on the beach. Dinner was in a little town called Spanish, at a place where they serve fresh walleye from Lake Huron. I am also very excited to report that Ken thinks it will be possible for me to put my feet in all five Great Lakes! An exciting prospect indeed.

Neither Ken nor I can resist standing in front of overly large structures to get our picture taken. Here we are by the goose in Wawa.

If you were a tourist and saw this sign you would be excited right? Well....

This is what we saw. As it turns out, the magnificence of the falls depends on the hydro facility. If hydro opens the dam, the falls are spectacular. They did not feel it appropriate for me to have a good 

photo-op.

We pulled into a nice area on Lake Superior called Old Woman Cove for a bit of a play.

This was on the path to the pictographs. The split in the rock used to be part of a volcano. Seriously. Nature is amazing.

This is the area of Lake Superior where the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. The winds were 50 knots and the waves 35 feet high. The fact this happened on an inland lake is remarkable to me.

These are the famous pictographs, painted by the Ojibwe.

This is the rock shelf Ken and I had to walk across to view them. As you can see we risked life and limb for a first hand look at history.

After all that work it was picnic time at Pancake Bay. The beach is really nice, and it got it's name because this is where the voyageurs would use up the rest of their flour to make pancakes, knowing Sault St. Marie was a short distance away. 

Ken and Teresa ended up changing into their swimsuits and going for a dip, Frances though it would be a big time saver to swim with her clothes on.

This is the Motel we are at in North Bay. By far the most awesome yet.