Lake Superior Circle Tour Day 7: Wisconsin

 More to come.

Lake Superior Circle Tour Day 6: Minnesota North Shore

 More waterfalls and beaches coming soon!

Lake Superior Circle Tour Day 5: Back to the USA

 Still too tired! Stand by for updates.

Lake Superior Circle Tour Day 4: Wawato Thunder Bay

 I will fill this in later! Exhausted by the time I stopped tonight.

Lake Superior Circle Tour Day 3: Waterfalls and Beaches

 I will fill this in later! Have been too tired in the evenings!

Lake Superior Circle Tour Day 2: Sault Saint Marie

 It’s Canada Day! Many people here wore their red Canada t shirts and carried small flags. Some cars had flags too. I would have bought a flag if I’d seen where to get one. I wore the reddest shirt I had with me.

After breakfast at the hotel, I walked back to the river walk because there was supposed to be a farmer’s market at 8 am. Alas, probably due to set up for the Canada Day celebrations, no farmers at Bondar park. I had a nice walk anyway.

Welcome gate.

The Gathering, Baawatang.the seven sacred animals.

Not sure if this is an instruction or an advertisement.

Fish sculpture at the marina.

Space Shuttle because Dr. Roberta Bondar was an astronaut.

Strawberries!

At the west end of the river walk, I found the Mill Market which is a farmers market. They were selling jewelry (with embedded metals to intercept harmful radiation), rocks, fish, meat, vegetables, alpaca scarves and hats, honey, maple syrup, and pastries. I bought a box of strawberries. They were delicious.

Next I walked over to the Bushplane Museum and had a look at the planes. There was a film about fighting forest fires from the air that was neat. Inside the museum there is also an insectarium, where they keep live insects. 

Mounted butterfly and moth collection.

A set of drawings of airplanes.

Fire fighting equipment.

One of the planes.

A stick insect.

Beetles.

Too early for beer, I went across the street to the Ermatinger-Clergue National Historic Siteand toured the old stone house (Ermatinger, it’s the oldest remaining house in western Ontario) and the blockhouse (originally ammunition storage, then living quarters for local industrial magnate). There was a poutine festival in the parking lot, so that’s what I had for lunch.

Classic poutine.

Finally had a beer at Northern Superior Brewing. 

I watched the freighters go by, on their way through the Soo Locks. I could watch ships all day. But, tourism calls. I saw some of the murals on Queen street, but the SSM museum was closed.