Rockhounding

From our entry to Canada, we followed along the Superior north shore, through Thunder Bay, a ghost town called Jackfish, Nipigon, Wawa, Lake Superior Provincial Park and finally to Sault Ste Marie. When the weather was rainy and cold, we stayed in small motels along the way, like this one in Nipigon:

No frills, no food, but clean with fairly good phone and internet service.

Camping at places like this one near the railroad tracks…

Picking rocks at every opportunity and in every gravel pit or pullout on the lake….

No decent agate specimens, but many, many stones have been gathered…… hundreds of pounds, in fact. The salvaged collecting bucket, alas, didn’t quite make it…..

We finally got to Sault Ste. Marie at the eastern-most end of the lake….

….. looked over into Michigan….

…. and decided we just weren’t ready to return to the USA just yet. So we turned east, leaving the lake behind for now.

A turn to some pretty weather brought us to this campground near the Spanish River….

Our first night there was so cold, Raider was called into service as a heating source…..

But things soon warmed up for some 4-wheeling….

A last night and early morning in camp before moving on…..

We are now in Sudbury, Ontario, waiting out still more rain and contemplating the next move. Do we press on to New Hampshire for possible powered parachute activity? Turn back and cover the Lake Superior south shore? Or strike out toward the American southwest and find some more hospitable weather?

Stay tuned…..