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Superior Freighter Spotting
8/26/2019 With rain and cooler weather coming into the area today we elected to leave lovely Hattie Cove and head for the US. Returning here is definitely on the to-do list. At 0900 we checked out at the visitor’s center and left Hattie Cove fondly in the rear view mirror. Curving around the National Park,…
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Hattie Cove in Pukaskwa National Park
8/25/2019 After a restful night at Rossport Campground, we moved to the Whitesand Lake Campground where they had facilities to dump our black and grey water tanks. Both campgrounds are part of Rainbow Falls Provincial Park. With that chore done we set-out to find the namesake waterfall. A 1.1 km hike out, with the same return, is…
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Biggest (Not Great) Lake
8/24/2019 – Thursday Sun was breaking through morning clouds and a receding fog bank during our first walk of the day around Nipigon’s Natural Edge Ecopark Campground and Marina. This was our third day waking up here and the scene has been different every morning. Bridge towers rose above the fog while a seagull monitored…
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Top of Superior
8/22/2019 – Tuesday We woke at Nipigon Natural Edge Ecopark to mist on the water and sounds of a loon, seagulls, and canada geese greeting the dawn. No mountains were in sight under a layer of low clouds with 40 degree temperatures. Finding we liked the area and our water view site, we renewed through…
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Fort William
8/21/2019 Noise from the nearby Thunder Bay Airport and a flock of geese awakened me at 0500. With plenty of time for coffee and breakfast, we were ready to step back in time when Fort William Historical Park opened. Following a trading canoe along the banks of the Kaministiauia River, we reset our calendars by two…
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Thunder Bay and Kakabeka Falls
8/20/2019 Witnessing the sunrise over lake Superior from bed was a glorious way to start the day. Beth did a great job choosing Eagle Ridge Trout Ponds for an overnight stay. Our spot high on the hill. Fog shrouded the offshore islands in Lake Superior. At 0853 we were looking back on our perch from…