Go West, Young Men!
Sunday, September 8th, 2019
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| Photo - courtesy of: http://www.voyageurslodge.com/ |
Yesterday afternoon, after spending the last three weeks in, and around, Elliot Lake, we set off
on our next road trip - this time, journeying westward. We have two house/pet sits in British Columbia, one in the Southern Interior, and the other on Vancouver Island. We decided to drive out and use the time in between the sits to explore more of this beautiful province.
Late in the afternoon, I had to officiate my last wedding of the year, so we made our first stop at the Voyageur's Lodge, in Batchawana Bay, just north of Sault Ste. Marie. It's a
favourite motel of ours which we have frequented on a number of occasions, and would enable to us to reach our second stop in just under 7 hours, instead of 10. (That being said, it still took us longer as we stopped several times on our way).
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| Batchawana Bay Beach, opposite the motel. |
Today, we travelled to Thunder Bay, via Wawa, where we stopped to take a picture of the famous Wawa Goose.
Of course, one has to be careful where one stands!!!
Passing through White River, we paid homage to Winnie the
Pooh.
Over 100 years ago, the community of White River bade farewell to a little black bear cub. This bear would become the inspiration of author, A.A. Milne, and subsequently became one of the most loved bears in the world. (For the full story, here's the link: History of Winnie the Pooh. )
We stopped for a picnic lunch in Terrace Bay, and sat on the beach - even though the wind was a little chilly.
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| Our Lunchtime View |
The scenery alongside Lake Superior is just awesome, with one vista continuously followed by
another!
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Just before we reached Thunder Bay, we visited the memorial
for Terry Fox who, sadly, had to end his marathon run across Canada when he
became too ill to continue.
Earlier this year we were in St. John's, Newfoundland, where he began his epic journey.
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| The starting point of Terry Fox's Marathon of Hope. |
This brief video clip shows part of his story
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| The highway leading into Thunder Bay is dedicated to Terry. |
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| Just a couple of kilometres east of the memorial is this sign, which commemorates the actual place where, tragically, he had to end his attempt to run across Canada. |
For the full inspiring story of Terry Fox, and his Marathon of Hope, here's the link: Marathon of Hope.
Opposite the memorial, one can look across Lake Superior and see the Sleeping Giant - a formation of mesas and sills on a Peninsula which remembles a giant lying on its back when viewed from the west of Thunder Bay. It is home to the Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, and has been on our bucket list to visit, instead of just passing by, as we did today.
Finally, we reached our destination for today. In 1970, The City of Thunder Bay was formed through the merger of the cities of Fort William and Port Arthur, as well as the townships of Neebing and Mcintyre.
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| Our Journey, so far. |
It's when we make a journey like this that we are reminded
of just how big Ontario is, let alone the whole country of Canada.
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| Our view from the hotel room, in Thunder Bay |
Tomorrow, we set out for five and a half-hour journey to Kenora, still within Ontario, near the border with Manotoba, but in a different time zone.
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