| At the end of the road we camped on at Terrace Bay was the
Aguasabon River Gorge. So we had a quick look at the waterfall and the gorge
the water had cut over the years. |  |
 | Onwards towards
Thunder Bay along the lake edge with frequent glimpses of Lake Superior and
the islands off the north shore. There is a ferry which crosses to these
islands from the south via the Tobermory peninsula. We had been near there four
days ago! |
| The terrain gets a little more mountainous here with occasional
bluffs looking down over the next flatter area. Whilst our weather was
generally good there were some weather systems around as we could see from
such vantage points. |  |
 | As the road comes
down past the rock faces we catch further glimpses of the lake.. |
| We took a brief side trip to Ouimet Canyon
which they had told us about in Toronto. It is not well signposted and was
quite hard to find. The canyon floor supports plants which are
normally only found in arctic tundra over 1000 miles to the north. |  |
 | The rock formation
here looks like an Indian Head (which is its name). It is the subject of an Ojibway legend. The canyon bottom is over 100 metres
below and the sun rarely reaches it thus creating the arctic microclimate. |
| The rock sidewalls are the result of glacial action and over the
last million years they have weathered, causing rocks to fall to the valley bottom. |  |
 | The canyon isn't
really that wide. There is a 1km path on the west side but visitors are not
permitted on the valley floor to protect the fragile rare flora present
there. |
| Eventually we reached Thunder Bay which is a major population
centre for the area (110,000) and a major railhead for the grain traffic from
the prairies to the west. |  |
 | Thus we end up with
endless lines of grain trucks of various types waiting for use. |
| But as we travelled on most of the trains we saw were of
containers mostly, double stacked. However whereas in the US most of the
containers were Chinese, in Canada they seem to be more Canadian owned. |  |
And just in passing we found more fungi with bright colours.
So we came to Kenora and we still haven't left Ontario. |