This is beautiful country, I wonder why they see the need to clutter it up with billboards! Not that the billboards are overwhelming but there are just enough of them to be irritating. I wonder if the signs really do bring in any business? Also irritating is the amount of graffiti written on the rocks. Why is it that we have to leave our names, or say so and so loves so and so wherever we go. I have an amusing thought and wonder if the petroglyphs that are found here and are all the mystery, were early people just leaving their name or proclaiming their love for somebody. Wouldn’t that throw all the archeologists and anthropologist into a tither!
We have a wonderful beach-side walk in Marathon where the dogs are allowed to run and run and run. Oreo seems bemused by the small waves that crash on the shore and can never quite figure out where the white foaming water has disappeared to when she arrives. Oscar, well he’s just content to follow us and poke about the beach. Lynn likes to look at rocks and wishes she had this supply for a few pebble mosaics at home.
We of course stop at Wawa and take some pictures of that damned goose. I don’t know what it is about that goose, but it gets its picture taken by every tourist who goes through here.
Down the road a ways is Lake Superior Provincial Park and we stop for the day at Rabbit Blanket Campground. The black flies are horrific and drive us inside. The dogs were hit really hard by those pesky flies. Though our dogs bellies are pock marked with bites they seem to show no ill effects and are quite put out that we don’t let them outside again.
It is a beautiful evening and once the sun goes down and the flies take a siesta, we venture out under a full moon to sit beside the campfire. We are visited by a small bat that whirls and twirls in the sky above us and as the fire dies we call it a day and head into our trailer and our bed.
Hi,
Just found your site & it looks great and sounds like a fun adventure. If your schedule allows for it, camp at Killarney Provincial Park (south-west of Sudbury) on the way to or from Toronto. Ontario Prov Parks refers to KPP as its crown jewel, and they’re not kidding. There’s a scenic hike to the top of the quartzite ridges, there’s great paddling, and excellent fish n chips in the town of the Killarney 10 km away from the park itself.
When you head out east, I found the Fundy Drive in NB to be worthwhile & the town of Alma is right next to Fundy National Park and has sea-kayaking and hiking options, as well as being close to a number of destinations, like the Hopewell Rocks (worth doing as a sidetrip from Moncton even if you’re not going along the Fundy coast) and Cape Enrage. Grand Manan Island is relaxing, but check carefully about the whale-watching in terms of time of year to see if there’s actually much going on.
Anyway, I just noticed that your itinerary out east was quite heavy on the NS and NF options and wanted to recommend some NB spots. PEI was also good fun.