Joe & Wilma's Excellent Adventures

 Monday, May 27, 2024

Memorial Day in U.S.

This Fort William Historical Park is a very nice campground, but we have a nice crop of dandelions blooming.  We had a couple of overnighters but they are gone, so there is only one other camper occupied in this campground.

After a rather tough night with my shoulder, we got up and ran some errands this morning, stopping at Walmart and Canadian Tire, then drove out to Kakabeka Falls just a few miles out of town.  The stores here in Canada do not have the variety of goods that we are used to, especially at Walmart. 

We bought a two hour pass at the park — we know we’re pretty fast at these things.  In fact we had 50 minutes left on our pass when we got done. This falls is a WOW, lots and lots of tea colored water pouring over these falls 40 metres below in three different stages.  This is a provincial park with camping so we drove across the bridge, around the park and through the campgrounds a little bit, then stopped at their portage store.  The views from this side are even better and we are standing only about 10 feet from the falls. As with all the other provincial parks we’ve seen there are several hiking trails. This campground is very woodsy with water available, but it doesn’t look like they have any thing at the sites as far as electricity or sewer. We asked and they do have a campground with electricity.  It’s 65 degrees here, feels hot to us.

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This is the river going out from the falls.  

The views from this side are even better and we are standing only about 10 feet from the falls. As with all the other provincial parks we’ve seen there are several hiking trails. This campground is very woodsy with water available, but it doesn’t look like they have any thing at the sites as far as electricity or sewer. We asked and they do have a campground with electricity.  It’s 65 degrees here, feels hot to us.

This waterfall was the best of the trip and was truly awesome.  We visited the portage store and walked around the grounds, then we drove back to the campground and Joe got started on his chores.  He worked on cleaning the rim of the back tire that had come off the front.  It had been on the inside, and now is on the outside and is extremely dirty.  He didn't have too much luck but he did what he could.  He also emptied the Jeep and swept/vacuumed out what he could.  Meanwhile, since I have an injured wing, I took a nap. 

The population of thunder Bay is 110,000, several times the population of any town that we’ve been in since we left Sault Ste. Marie. Joe’s having trouble getting used to stoplights again, very impatient.  We are heading down the road tomorrow, back in the U.S., so he will need to get use to stop lights again.