Wawa, North Bay

This evening we made it to North Bay, Ontario. This is our third day driving in Ontario, and all of our driving's been through Northern Ontario. After spending 3 days in pretty much empty Northern Ontario I have already begun to notice how much space we have in Canada. I mean I knew this already, but the drives that I've done before have mostly been between Edmonton and Winnipeg, and even through the prairies there are towns located all the way along the highway. In Northern Ontario it seems like there could be many many kilometers in between towns of only a few hundred people. It's kind of amazing to experience that.

In the past two days we drove between Thunder Bay and Wawa and between Wawa and North Bay. Here are some pictures of those drives...


Right after leaving Thunder Bay we stopped at the Terry Fox Memorial. After driving farther east in northern Ontario it was amazing to think that Terry Fox had run all that way with just one leg.


Near Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park we stopped at the longest suspension bridge in Canada. It's 150 feet longer than the Capilano Suspension bridge, but not as high. There were two suspension bridges there, one longer and one shorter, here's a view of the shorter bridge and of the canyon from the longer bridge.


The next day after leaving Wawa we stopped in Lake Superior Provincial Park to see the Agawa Bay Pictographs. Here's one that was probably made between 150 and 400 years ago.


At the pictographs I jumped in the water to swim around the rock face to see some more pictographs at a cove only accessible by water. Swimming in Lake Superior was amazing, the water was cool and unbelievably clear.


Driving through Sudbury we had to stop at the giant nickel. This nickel is the largest coin in the world!!!

Tomorrow we will be driving to Ottawa and staying there for 2 nights. We are getting a private tour of the Parliament Buildings and Senate, and will be going to the National Art Gallery and the Museum of Civilization.

I will be posting a full photo album documenting our trip to Quebec after we get back to Edmonton.

Stay tuned for more updates about Ottawa!