Our last days north of Lake Superior were spent near the small (they all are) town of Red Rock, Ontario. On the clearest of the days, we hiked along the Nipigon River, below, along the railroad, across the power line cut, and up a pretty steep hill - a scramble aided by well placed ropes to assist the climb and a pretty long stair case.
The view from another overlook toward the Red Rock "harbor". In the prosperous years of the past it was a paper mill town. Now it is a town of ''well, we might try tourism" and salvaging scrap from the paper mill.
That is me making Patt nervous. I like to look over cliffs. Patt does not choose to get close to cliffs. The guy sorta close to me pretends to like to look over cliffs. Oddly enough and surprisingly he and his wife are from North Carolina. Their car at the trailhead with its NC license plate marked the first NC plate we had seen since probably Virginia. And later that day pulling into a provincial park in front of us was another NC plate on a RV. We Carolinians were a real crowd in Ontario this week.
Patt coming down a stretch of the hill, rope and climbing stick assisted. Good thing we heard there had been no bear sightings on the trail this year or Patt would have jumped faster.
We have seen some green tunnels — and some nice lake views too, but lots and lots of tunnels and not much traffic.
Neys Provincial Park has a small stream that enters Lake Superior at a sandy beach. And cold water. There was a woman and her son knee deep in the water when we first got down to the shore and then just Patt and me. Again, Patt decided against wading. I did find a rock for Eric.
From 1941 to '46, this park was a POW camp for Germans captured by the British during WWII. The POWs sent here were all from the German Luftwaffe or submarine forces, most were officers. There was a small museum about the camp here. Of the 33,000 German POWs interned throughout Canada during the war, 25% eventually emigrated to Canada after the war. (We keep telling you all Canadians are friendly.)
On one of our many pretty waterfall hikes, this one on the Sand River, there is the Trans-Canadian Highway behind Patt and of course the Lake, Superior that is.
Some of the many waterfalls we walked around and past on this hike.
A feature of this hike was being able to actually walk up the river bed a pretty good distance.
Then of course the stream gets narrow or the last glacier here left some big rocks in the way as opposed to just scaring the bed rock.
Now on to a bit of Lake Huron then to Niagara Falls.
Gorgeous scenery! Safe travels
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