Woke up to more clouds and rain but it is warm ! We headed downtown Sault St. Marie to the Bush Plane Museum which had 24 vintage aircraft. The history of forest fire fighting with a 3-D wildfire film (with smells, sounds, tastes, visuals and vibrations) was also at the museum. Some of the vintage planes were fire fighting machines. Well worth the trip. The Soo has a great boardwalk along the water front which goes for kms. On our day journey towards Thunder Bay we drove by more rocks, trees, rocks, trees,and an occasional glimpse of Lake Superior with its rocky and sandy shores. It was beautiful at times as the sun had come out and a heavy mist rolled in at certain spots. At one look out a plague marked the area the Edmond Fitzgerald had gone down in a storm. Have not been able to get the song out of my head since :-). Along the Route there were signs of Ojipway communities and at a large rest area a store carried many handmade Indian items - some of them Ojipway. We bought some smoked trout to try. Of course at Wawa we had to find the giant Canada Goose statue and actually there were a few around the town as well as a giant seagull. As we approached the town of Marathon the Barrick Gold Company appeared around a bend in the road. What a huge operation. And of course as we drove along the highway Terry Fox came to mind. What a long, lonely run it must have been thru Northern Ontario. We made it to Thunder Bay just as the skies opened up. Sign of the day - Mom Lake, Dad Lake and Baby Lake ( those were the signs on 3 little lakes )
Woke up to more clouds and rain but it is warm ! We headed downtown Sault St. Marie to the Bush Plane Museum which had 24 vintage aircraft. The history of forest fire fighting with a 3-D wildfire film (with smells, sounds, tastes, visuals and vibrations) was also at the museum. Some of the vintage planes were fire fighting machines. Well worth the trip. The Soo has a great boardwalk along the water front which goes for kms. On our day journey towards Thunder Bay we drove by more rocks, trees, rocks, trees,and an occasional glimpse of Lake Superior with its rocky and sandy shores. It was beautiful at times as the sun had come out and a heavy mist rolled in at certain spots. At one look out a plague marked the area the Edmond Fitzgerald had gone down in a storm. Have not been able to get the song out of my head since :-). Along the Route there were signs of Ojipway communities and at a large rest area a store carried many handmade Indian items - some of them Ojipway. We bought some smoked trout to try. Of course at Wawa we had to find the giant Canada Goose statue and actually there were a few around the town as well as a giant seagull. As we approached the town of Marathon the Barrick Gold Company appeared around a bend in the road. What a huge operation. And of course as we drove along the highway Terry Fox came to mind. What a long, lonely run it must have been thru Northern Ontario. We made it to Thunder Bay just as the skies opened up. Sign of the day - Mom Lake, Dad Lake and Baby Lake ( those were the signs on 3 little lakes ) 
What a beautiful photo!
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