May 21- Up and out the door by shortly after 7. We are getting into the swing of things as to who does what in getting the RV ready at the beginning of the day and set up for the night. Truth be told Greg does most of it. The first part of our trip was road and trees.
So here we are in “northern” Ontario, about 112 kilometers from the nearest community and what happens? We get stopped by a red traffic light in the middle of nowhere Canada. Anyone who has ridden as a passenger with Greg, knows that if there is going to be a red light anywhere, you will be caught at it if Greg is driving. This is a new record even for him. After a couple of hours driving in tree lined roads, the trees seemed to be further back from the highway and then we saw an occasional house and then a town. It was so exciting!
Hearst, population 5500. I speculated whether Patty once had a hide away here. Of interest was a compressor station run by wood and coal and an airport for sea planes. Next bigger town was Kapuskasing (6500 pop). They had a Rayonier plant and by looking it up on the internet we learned that it makes cellulose products. I liked the canton of Moonbeam, complete with a flying saucer.
Crossed a road called 49th parallel road (Greg checked and it was). Saw roads marked Concession roads along with 2 numbers; e.g. Con 5&6. Have no idea what a concession road is. It doesn’t take much to amuse me… In going through a village the first street we saw was d’amours road and the next one was Nursery road. We stopped in Cochrane, on the advise of friends, Ties and Terry, to see the polar bear exhibit.
We saw 2 of the 5 bears (wouldn’t want to meet them on a dark road) and learned about the research that is being done and the very real concerns about their survival.
They also had a heritage village and we chatted a long time with one of the volunteers who looked after the farm house. Many of the exhibits were a tad familiar.
Unfortunately this Cochrane didn’t have an ice-cream store. From there we went to our campsite for the night in Iroquois Falls.
Right on the lake. It looked inviting and the temperature was about 18 but the ice only went out of the lake two days ago so our bathing suits stayed in the closet.
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