Sudbury To The Soo, And Wawa Too

Travel Day

• Sudbury, ON to Wawa, ON via Lorne St. (Sudbury) and ON-17

We left Sudbury this morning and headed west, towards a small town called Espanola. It is the home to a Domtar pulp and paper mill. This is the view of the mill from the land side.

Then there is the water side. Pulp and paper mills need a lot of water. Domtar gets it from this lovely little river and waterfall.

As we headed from the rock hard mining country towards the Great Lakes, we saw more of this small agriculture along the way.

Katherine saw this tipi and thought it was pretty cool.

Pretty much every lake along the way is still frozen up here, not just the little ones like this one, but the big ones too.

On almost every farm we passed, there was an old barn like this one, in various states of collapse. It's a harsh environment up here.

We stopped at a small town along Lake Huron called Bruce Mines. Katherine liked this goose.

As with most small towns in this part of the country, the nicest homes are along the lake front.

Speaking of the the lake, Lake Huron is still frozen over.

We headed into Sault Ste. Marie for coffee and supplies, then hit the road again.

Yep, we are headed to Wawa, Ontario today.

Speaking of Wawa, it has a lake. The lake is still frozen.

Katherine was impressed with the size of this pile of snow in a local parking lot.

The other thing that Wawa is famous for is its statue of a goose. This is NOT the Wawa goose, but another goose on a local motel.

Then there is this goose in a local park. They've got a thing for gooses up here.

Finally, the official, real Wawa goose. It was built in 1963 to commemorate the completion of the Trans Canada Highway to Wawa in 1960. Before that, the only access to Wawa was by train. Wawa means "land of the big goose" in Ojibway, so it kind of makes sense to have this monument here.

Our motel looks over Lake Superior, also still frozen over. Although you cannot see the lake in this picture, you sure can see the colours of the setting sun.