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Westward ho!

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 Sunday, May 28: Pukaskwa National Park We are finally heading directly west... only a couple thousand kilometres to go! We had planned to drive maybe 5 or 6 hours today, but we "paused" for lunch after about 3 hours at Pukaskwa National Park on the north shore of Lake Superior, and couldn't leave, it was so lovely. Once settled in to the pretty basic campsite, we took a "one hour moderate hike" out to the lake. Turned out to be somewhat longer for us old buddies, but still a pretty walk along beach, scrub forest, some muddy bits and a Soames Hill style stairways to some beautiful lookouts. The weather, as you can see, is quite lovely now, though still chilly in the morning and evening. The campground had a laundromat which we took advantage of this evening. Here is your hard bitten correspondent in the boring little wifi zone! Monday, May 29: Thunderation! Pat did get to see her Moose last night. Seriously though, we did see a couple of female Moose (Mice?) at

Heading north

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Thursday May 25: Minden A couple more photos from our evening at Prince Edward park last night. The beach was very reminiscent of a Hawaiian beach, other than the temperature. Funny to be feeling like we are heading into the great northern wilderness of Ontario, when we are still roughly in parallel with Portland, Oregon. But the towns are certainly smaller, and we are approaching the endless bush and granite of the Canadian Shield.  Most of today was northward along the Trent Servern waterway, starting northward from Cobourg, with pit stops in Peterborough, with its famous lifting lock system, and Lindsay with a pretty little mill remnant. We watched some quite big fish being caught along the canal in Lindsay. The goal for the evening was a free camping at a Walmart parking in Minden Ontario, but when we got here... no Walmart! Double checking my App, I realized it was referring to Minden, Louisiana! A bit too long of a drive this evening. We did find a very nice campground just beyon