Lake Superior shoreline
2011/08/22
I didn’t get enough sleep last night. The lodge is nice and all, and I almost would have liked to spend another day there…
… but the bed was a bit hard, the floors noisy and there was no protection from the noise of the other guests, so when they all got up at the ludicrous hour of 7am to have a communal breakfast, it became impossible for me to sleep.
So I decided to make it a short day. Instead of driving to Sudbury as planned, and likely repeating yesterday’s mistake, I would instead stop at Sault Ste Marie. This works out better anyway, because it gives me time to do some tourist stops between Wawa and SSM, and also between SSM and Sudbury, and pushes my Toronto arrival back a day which I think may sync up better with other peoples’ plans.
I stopped at a few nice picnic spots at various Lake Superior beaches. The first notable location was the Agawa Petroglyphs park. You have to climb down a steep cliff to get to them, and they’re on a dangerous rock ledge, but I got pictures of a few of them:
If you go here, this is the ledge you have to go out on to see them:
Take your shoes and socks off to get a better grip on the rock, and even then do not go out if the rocks are wet – these rocks are slippery even dry. A boat might be a better way to see them; there is a boat launch nearby.
Just a ways down the road is a scenic lookout. I stopped briefly to rephotograph it versus the 1992 trip:
Then on to Sault Ste Marie, where I went downtown to rephotograph the bridge to the US and A, and the historic canal locks:
I’m really glad I decided to make this a short day; I got to do a lot more interesting stuff.
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