We are heading through rain to New Brunswick today, Friday, and probably won’t have a chance to update further for several days. Here is one more day for you…
8/15/23, Tuesday
Got up early to almost catch the sunrise over Ouimet Canyon. It was a 7-minute drive from our campsite with a $5 entry fee to the provincial park, which we had all to ourselves. The view was phenomenal! The boardwalk and trails lead to the “viewing pods” which hang right on the edge of the 330-foot-deep, 490-foot-wide, and 1.2 miles long canyon.
Driving along the shores of Lake Helen was like a spiritual experience. Words cannot describe the wilderness we are crossing. We caught one more spectacular view of Lake Superior and then stopped at what I call “54 Rest Stop,” named after the “54” marked on our map… 54 kilometers of wilderness road between the tiny towns of Jellicoe and Hardrock Mine. We had a lovely view of a nearby lake with no sign of any inhabitants. We stopped at Longlac for coffee and donuts at the only town for miles and miles. They boast the best coffee and donuts. I’m sure they were the best in the whole area, considering they were the only store in the whole area!
After Longlac, the trees became dull in color and the leaves looked almost like they were just coming out in the spring. The vegetation was scrubby, looking much like tundra. We arrived at Rene Brunelle Provincial Park after 6 PM, once again experiencing wrong directions from both Google maps and Waze. We have learned to ignore the GPS map apps and rely on our AAA paper maps. We set up camp amid clouds of gnats and were thankful for the netting hoods to keep the gnats away from eyes and ears.
We cooked supper inside our gazebo and left the gnats outside. We enjoyed the luxury of warm showers and laughed very hard that after six days on the road we only had one piece of clothing in our dirty clothes bag! (We did wash a few things in Manitoba.) We had the “Owl’s Nest Campground” all to ourselves, situated along the shores of Remi Lake. The lake used to be a float plane base in the early 1900’s and is a prime fishing site for walleye, Northern pike and small-mouth bass.
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