Last week Mary and I made a drive to a provincial park (named Sleeping Giant). That drive takes about 18 hours, so we split it up in two days. Our first stop was just past Barrie where friends from Fonthill moved a few years ago. After lunch we continued up to Sault St Marie which is about half way. We had an overnight in a simple motel there.
Day two brought us to close to Thunder Bay where the park is located on a large peninsula in Lake Superior. That lake is one of the largest in the world and deep enough to classify as an ocean. The views while driving on Hwy 17 (which also become Canada's cross-country National Hwy 1) are spectacular and I already posted some photos in my blogs of September 2021 when I drove all the way to Vancouver and discovered the beauty of this road. I am glad that Mary has seen this part of Ontario now as well. Hereby a variety of the views we enjoyed with some early fall tree leaves coloring....
We passed several concrete production plants of LaFarge, the company Mark works for. And we also saw a few animals....
To our big surprise, we had a large moose cross the highway right in front of our car. Even though there were many road signs warning drivers for the possible crossing of moose, this mostly happens at night. But we had front seat view this time. Impressive animals! And then we visited the giant goose in Wawa (see also my photos in September 2021 when I did a wild camping overnight along Lake Wawa)...
And we had breakfast in a family restaurant in Wawa on the way to the park, as well as lunch on the way back from the park a few days later.
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