Great night for sleeping. It rained on and off and once woke us up it was raining so hard. Woke up to heavy fog over Thunder Bay so our idea of seeing the Sleeping Giant across the bay was not to happen. We did visit the Terry Fox Memorial site and it is very moving and impressive. What a journey for a young guy. Our next stop was the Fort William Historic Park where we spent 4 hours wandering around the Fort which is the largest in Canada and US. Our young guide who was a mixture of John Wilson and Brian Calder loved his job and it was easy to tell by the private 1 1/2 hr tour he gave us. Outside the Fort we talked with an Ojibwa girl who lived in a small cluster of wigwams and was building her own out of birch bark and Black Spruce poles. The Fort is fully furnished and stocked with supplies, furs, trades people, food, etc. We had a typical fur trader lunch of pea soup and beef stew on the front porch of a dining hall. On the farm part of the Fort they had a 3 hr old lamb still trying to find his feet. Well worth the visit. On the way to the campground we passed the town of the 4 Staal Brothers (hockey players) and their family sod farm where they grew up. At the Kakabeka Falls the sound of the falls and the water pouring over it was awesome. It stopped you in your tracks with its sense of power. The Falls is 40 meters and the Ojibwa translation is "thundering water ". Our campground is very near the Falls in a Provincial Park. Turned out to be a sunny, warm day - 27 but then a huge thunderstorm rolled thru. Bernie picked fiddleheads at the Fort and cooked them for supper. A happy man !
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