Toured around Wawa today. Went downtown and took pctures of the large Wawa Goose, that is their symbol, and went tho the water front Park to look at the fountain in the lake and an old drilling rig that was used at the old iron mines.
Stopped and had a hamburger at Mona's Kitchen. Couldn't eat it all!! Then went to Magpie High Falls to take some more pictures.
Seems rather strange that the River and Falls are called magpie, since there are no magpies in this part of the country. From there went on south a few miles to another falls called Silver Falls.
More pictures. Then to the Sandy Beach, a nice beach with soft clean sand on Lake Superior. Returned home by 4:00PM Aug 6th
We were on the road again by about 10:15AM after saying our good-byes to Bill and Laverne. We hope to maybe meet up with them towards spring somewhere in Arizona. They are unsure if they will be traveling that way or not, as Florida is their spring preference being that they have a daughter living there. We'll see! Traveled east along Superior to Nipigon, where the Trans Canada splits to 17 to the south and 11 to the North. Something that struck us as rather disturbing was that from Nipigon to west of Thunder Bay, there is only one road tying Canada together, There is not another by pass route in case of some disaster in this section!! Plans and construction is underway to increase this to a 4 lane highway, but will take some time to complete. We followed 17 near the lake shore to about Marathon. Then the highway swings inland, crossing many hills, although fairly low are quite steep grades. On this section we passed White River. It was here that Winnie the Pooh originated.
Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a Canadian black bear which he often saw at London Zoo, and "Pooh", a swan they had met while on holiday. The bear cub was purchased from a hunter for $20 by Canadian Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, Canada, while en route to England during the First World War. He named the bear "Winnie" after his hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba. "Winnie" was surreptitiously brought to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as The Fort Gary Horse regimental mascot. Colebourne left Winnie at the London Zoo while he and his unit were in France; after the war she was officially donated to the zoo, as she had become a much loved attraction there.
Then the highway returns to the Superior lake shore at Wawa. It would seem to us that Canada should be working more diligently to develop better roads through this Ontario section to encourage more vacationers to use the Canadian Route rather than the American one. The scenery is good here and lots of land along the shorelines where tourist facilities could be easily developed. Oh well, nobody asked me, and what would I know! We had reserved at the Wawa Resort, and arrived at 4:45PM
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