Sault Ste. Marie and beyond

View from our room..tanker heading to the locks

The bridge from Sault Ste. Marie Canada to Sault Ste. Marie USA

We spent two nights in Sault Ste. Marie, as we arrived late on Saturday night, and really needed to do laundry.  It was nice having a day off to just walk around and be lazy.  We left this morning and headed out to Wawa.  The weather forecast was for thunder showers the whole way, but we had blue skies and some clouds.  It was a beautiful trip, with some scenery that would rival the Cabot Trail!  Lake Superior is like a fresh water ocean!!  We saw some beautiful beaches along the way.

Lake Superior

The great riding road

Hard to see, but in the distance Lake Superior

Checking out the water temperature...I wanna go swimming!!

This was the beach we were at

Wawa Goose

And another goose..I think I saw 3 altogether.  This one at a  motel.

 Wawa is famous for the goose that is at the information station.  The town founder decided he needed a drawing card to get tourists to stop enroute to Thunder Bay.  It seems to be working!  We also got to see our first moose today, after all the warning signs from New Brunswick to here.  Thankfully it was a stuffed one at the gas station in Wawa :-) 

Kevan tried to commandeer a helicopter tour of the area, but all the helicopters were fire fighting out of the province, so he had to be content with just looking at all the photographs at the information station.  We had lunch and then carried on to Marathon, where we are spending the night.  We did finally hit some rain, but only for 1/2 hour or so just before we arrived at the motel, so no big deal.  It is dry again now.  Tomorrow is supposed to be sunny, and we have a shorter day tomorrow, heading to Thunder Bay.  We probably could have made it in one day, but with the forecast predicting thunder showers we decided to not be so adventurous today.  Kevan almost changed his mind, but when we hit the rain, we decided to stay put in Marathon.  We are heading into town shortly to check out a local eatery, get a good nights sleep and be on our way tomorrow!

Old Woman Bay beach..a long sandy beach