Day 9, Thursday, July 5, 2007.
Not a real exciting day. We left Rainbow Falls at about 10:00 pm to have breakfast at Hoito, a restaurant that Dirk Lewis had suggested to me. He said you had to have breakfast at Hoito which is a Finnish restaurant. It was not disappointing either, very nice meal and lots of food. The pancakes Tegan had and the Omelets Willa and I had were very thin and nice flavors. The general drive was rough but ok. Tegan drove part of the way. Willa is too nervous with her driving and I am afraid my nerve
s are a little frayed when she drives, just not a good time to try and teach a new driver, especially on these roads. Stopped at a lookout to have our first view of Lake Superior, pretty spectacular. Looks like the ocean, it is so big and in some places kind of an emerald green. One of the things on my to-do list was to see Ouimet Canyon. We saw the sign and made a quick left towards Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park. On the way there was a place that advertised the longest swinging bridge in Canada and we decided to go in and see it also. The road in was a red dirt road for lack of a better description about 2 k off the road we turned in on. Turns out to be two bridges one short and one long but when we went inside we checked the price and they wanted about $14.50 each. Now $14.50 each doesn't sound too bad but $45.00 for 3 of us seemed just a little too much. So we headed back to Ouimet Canyon and see what it was like. There w
as a nice walk to the Canyon and they had built out a couple of view lookouts that hung out over the canyon. I would say we were about 300 feet to the floor. The writeups were interesting because they talked about the plants in the floor and how they were unique to the area and some of them were artic plants. In the hottest part of August in the shadows of some of the big rocks they say you can find snow or ice still there. We found it to be a nice walk and very breath taking and the price in Canadian Dollars was (the drum roll please) - - - - - - - $0.00 that’s right $0.00. The Bridge walk I think would have been interesting and I am not saying it wasn’t worth it, plus they have the cost of building the bridges and maintaining them but I thought for 3 people it was a little much. The rest of the day was spent driving although we didn’t put on many miles. Well! I know what tomorrow will bring, its our 39th Wedding Anniversary and we will try to celebrate it in Sault St. Marie, Ontario.
Not a real exciting day. We left Rainbow Falls at about 10:00 pm to have breakfast at Hoito, a restaurant that Dirk Lewis had suggested to me. He said you had to have breakfast at Hoito which is a Finnish restaurant. It was not disappointing either, very nice meal and lots of food. The pancakes Tegan had and the Omelets Willa and I had were very thin and nice flavors. The general drive was rough but ok. Tegan drove part of the way. Willa is too nervous with her driving and I am afraid my nerve
s are a little frayed when she drives, just not a good time to try and teach a new driver, especially on these roads. Stopped at a lookout to have our first view of Lake Superior, pretty spectacular. Looks like the ocean, it is so big and in some places kind of an emerald green. One of the things on my to-do list was to see Ouimet Canyon. We saw the sign and made a quick left towards Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park. On the way there was a place that advertised the longest swinging bridge in Canada and we decided to go in and see it also. The road in was a red dirt road for lack of a better description about 2 k off the road we turned in on. Turns out to be two bridges one short and one long but when we went inside we checked the price and they wanted about $14.50 each. Now $14.50 each doesn't sound too bad but $45.00 for 3 of us seemed just a little too much. So we headed back to Ouimet Canyon and see what it was like. There w
as a nice walk to the Canyon and they had built out a couple of view lookouts that hung out over the canyon. I would say we were about 300 feet to the floor. The writeups were interesting because they talked about the plants in the floor and how they were unique to the area and some of them were artic plants. In the hottest part of August in the shadows of some of the big rocks they say you can find snow or ice still there. We found it to be a nice walk and very breath taking and the price in Canadian Dollars was (the drum roll please) - - - - - - - $0.00 that’s right $0.00. The Bridge walk I think would have been interesting and I am not saying it wasn’t worth it, plus they have the cost of building the bridges and maintaining them but I thought for 3 people it was a little much. The rest of the day was spent driving although we didn’t put on many miles. Well! I know what tomorrow will bring, its our 39th Wedding Anniversary and we will try to celebrate it in Sault St. Marie, Ontario.
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