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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Returning to Ottawa - Day 2

Day 2 started at 11:00 with a good drive from Thunder Bay through the mountain highway around Lake Superior to Sault Ste Marie, arriving there at 22:45. Along the way, visited the Ouimet Canyon off Highway 17, an hour's drive outside of Thunder Bay, near Dorion. The canyon was 100 meters deep, 150 meters wide, and 2 km in length. Just prior to that, visited Canada's longest (single span) suspension foot-bridge at Eagle Canyon (182 meters), which was next to the Ouimet Canyon. The bridge was suspended 45 meters above the canyon floor. Also, stopped at numerous picnic and lookout points along Highway 17, on route to Sault Ste Marie. They were mostly very spectacular views of mountains and lakes. Drove into the mountainous Lake Superior Provincial Park south of Wawa in the evening around sunset, and stopped at a couple of picnic areas to take some sunset pictures. More to be added... stay tuned.




A stop at a scenic lookout point on Highway 17 just west of Schreiber (between Waypoints 15 and 16 on my GPS map).




A scenic southwest view overlooking a bay in Lake Superior.




A scenic south view of a bay in Lake Superior, with unique cliff mountains in the background.




A view of Highway 17 heading towards Schreiber.


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