Obatanga Provincial Park
We had the day off today waiting for the 'new crew members' to arrive...and maybe to rest a little too!
Northwestern Ontario has some of the nicest Provincial Parks we have ever visited. Sioux Narrows and Caliper Lake on Hwy 71 are both remote parks with lots of fishing (if you are into that) and hiking opportunities. Quetico, with its huge wilderness area, is ideal for the launching of outback canoe trips. Neys and Rainbow Falls make it easy to connect to the 56 km hiking trail, The Casque Isles Trail, along the shores of Lake Superior from Terrace Bay to Rossport. White Lake is perfect for canoeing and Obatanga, with its 32 lakes, is the ideal setting to do wilderness canoe trips. All of these parks have amazing campgrounds that are 'anything but busy'. And we have had the pleasure to camp in each one with the exception of Quetico! Another area that is a 'must visit' for us at a future date! The one negative has been the boil water order at Sioux Narrows, White Lake and again at Obatanga. This is something that the Provincial Government needs to address quickly and not as the Notices say "sometime in the future filters will be installed to rectify the problem". Knowing the speed with which things are done by the government this could be indefinately!!!
While having dinner last night 3 'touring cyclists' rode into the campground. I got talking to them. A guy and his sister left Victoria May 3, circled Vancouver Island and have ridden some 'insane' distances. A 300 km day and a couple of 200 km days all in a row in the prairies. One day they were on their bikes for over 14 hours. Must have better padding on their buts than we do!!! Nuts!!! They are on their way to St. Johns. With them (only joined up yesterday in White River) was a guy who left Victoria May 11 and is heading for Halifax. Finally people going 'the right way'
Daily Distance = 0.
P.S. Our 'crew' has arrived safe and sound and keen to get rolling tomorrow.
