Georgian Bay was amazing. While I know we only touched a small portion of the bay, I do believe that the area we were in was indicative of the Bay as a whole. We drove two hours north of Toronto, parked the car and then took a ½ hour boat ride out to Bill and Susan’s island cottage. Here is just a sampling of the shots I took. The days were bright and sunny, but even in the early morning mist the beauty of the islands shone through. The view from the porch…… From the other side of their island – looking more into the Bay Another cottage we visited, tucked in the rocks on the left. “Just” some other incredible views….
We crossed into Canada over the Thousand Island Bridge. The views going over that (very) high bridge are impressive – even on a gray day. Here it is looking out of my window –
And here it is looking out of Gary’s – mind you, he’s keeping his eyes on the road!
I have been terribly remiss in taking pictures of family and friends as we have proceeded on our adventure. How I wish I had taken some shots of my Canadian family – my Dad’s widow, Jo Dwinell and her three children. While we were in Canada they included us in an engagement party and opened their Georgian Bay cottage (see my travel pictures for photos of that area). I got a shot of Jo, Gary and I, but other than that the best I had in my stash of photos was a group of heads swimming in Georgian Bay. So…. Here are the three of us sitting in Lizzie… And here are those heads…..
Hello, dear friends! So sorry there has been such a delay in posting – we really haven’t fallen off the face of the earth. I just posted about four entries – but I’m still behind on getting the pictures up-loaded and organized. Not to mention telling you all about the great time we had with Toby & Tammy & Ellie last weekend. Right now it’s 11:30PM on Tuesday, and we’re sitting the parking lot of the Monaco Service Center in Elkhart, Indiana. We have a 6AM appointment tomorrow to have some work done on Lizzie. If I can get real power to this computer, and maybe a wireless connection that won’t eat up all of my minutes – I’ll try to continue to get these pages up to date. We are well – still friends, and having an amazing time! ~~Steph
Even though our time in Canada was wonderful, it was still nice to be back in the good old USA! I was surprised at how good it felt – and actually how safe I felt (even though I was coming into Buffalo! =) ). Lizzie was pointed to Erie and Presque Isle right outside of Erie. Presque Isle is a lovely state park – lot’s of sandy beaches (and the only waves in PA, so I’ve read), lots of hiking and biking trails and a little bit of history to boot. This is where Commondeer Perry built (well, I’m sure he had some help) the six boats that were used in the decisive Battle on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. One of those ships remain – the Niagara, which is docked in Erie and is fully seaworthy. In fact, if you want to volunteer, they take about two dozen volunteers at a time to help maintain and sail this brig around the US. We didn’t sign up – so there’s probably room for you! Later that same day we stopped at the only National Park in Ohio – the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, located between Cleveland and Akron. It wasn’t a “destination” park – no geisers or ocean cliffs – but it was full of wonderful hiking and biking paths and some bits of history also. It was the route of the Ohio & Erie Canal – which is now a bike path. We learned a little more about turn of the century boats – this time the canal barges. (Between the USS Constitution in Boston, the Mystic Seaport, the first nuclear submarine, the Nautalis, the US Brig Niagara and now the Canal boats, we’re becoming quite informed about all things floating….not to mention the new Kayak experience…..). Anyway – about the park – it was really very nice and although we didn’t stop long (you know, Columbus was calling…..), it seemed like there was a lot to offer.
I haven’t had a chance to upload the pictures from Presque Isle and Cuyahoga Valley – but watch for them soon on the Picture page…..
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