Saturday June 27, 2009 - A Day Trip to Wawa

Gordon went out for sunset last night and I stayed home. Gordon saw a moose, to read his journal, click here.

I was up a bit earlier than usual this morning for our planned day trip north to Wawa, Ontario. We’ve been unable to get any response from the campground there (there is only one other than the provincial park) despite registering for a reservation online and leaving a telephone message. I don’t know how people stay in business when they don’t answer their phone or at least return their calls.

I made us a lunch, washed the bugs off the truck windows and didn’t go for my walk. Bugs on the windshield do not make for good photographs so I also packed the paper towels and windex.

We left shortly after 9 a.m. The sun was shining on our way north so we stopped in various places for photos. Our first stop at Wawa was at the campground (Wawa RV Resort and Campground) that we'll be moving to on Monday. We got our site firmed up. We then toured Wawa, it's a small town literally in the middle of nowhere and the downturn in the economy shows in the closure of businesses in the area. In fact it shows in this whole area, there are lots of abandoned motels, restaurants and gas stations.

Photos of our trip north

Beautiful views

Dense forests

Lots of steep inclines

Lake Superior view (Ojibwe language, the lake is called Gitchigumi, meaning "big water")

Lots of blasting to create this highway

Overlook

We have red rocks here too


The site we've reserved at Wawa RV Resort and Campground

The RV Resort is on the Magpie River

The local car wash called Wawash

Masks of Gitche Gumee at Tourist Information Bureau

The Magpie River Valley - taken at the Tourist Bureau

It started to cloud over and by the time we arrived back at Batchawana Bay, it was cloudy. We were both tired so I lay down and had a long nap and only got up in time to make dinner.

Sunday June 21, 2009 - On the Move!

I was up just before 6 this morning. Travel day! Instead of taking my walk, I made lunches for us as usual on a travel day.

Gordon had gone out to take photos at sunrise but was back shortly after I got up. To see one of his photos click here.

We left Deux Rivieres at 8:15 a.m., partly sunny skies and 20C (68F). The plan was to head to either Whitefish to overnight or Spragge. When we passed Whitefish it was pretty early so decided to head on to Spragge. On line it said there was a KOA at Spragge but it looked like it wasn't operating as a KOA anymore. When we got cell service again I called and got an answering machine. I really, really hate that! It was no longer a KOA. To make a long story short, we couldn't find it. So Gordon located a campground at Iron Bridge called Viking Tent and Trailer Park but when we got there there were too many trees for our internet satellite and to top it off the power was off.

Starting on our way

Lake Nipissing at North Bay

I took a photo of our rig at one of the turn outs where we stopped for a break

Lots of rocks

Beautiful lupins along the way

We needed our satellite or wifi as Gordon has a photo order coming through tomorrow and will need to send out his photos to a repeat customer.

So we headed out for the KOA at Sault Ste Marie. We arrived at 3:15 p.m. seven hours on the road! When we arrived we found out that their wifi is down! Just our luck! So Gordon set up our own internet satellite. The wifi should be back on. It's something to do with the cable company.

Our site

Office

Flower garden with some sites behind

Our row

So we're here and we're tired but we're only overnighting at $49/night. We did have a 10% off coupon so ONLY paid $46. It's a really nice park but there are a lot of trees. We were lucky that our satellite is on tripod otherwise we'd be out of luck. They also have cable TV so we're taking advantage of that. It is a very nice campground.

We need to go out for diesel tonight and we might take a little tour of the city. Gordon has never been here and I was here briefly when I was 14 just passing thru on our way to Thunder Bay so everything has changed since then. We also want to find the bridge to the USA as we'll probably go to southern Ontario on our way back and the shortest, easiest route is through Michigan.