West Coast Trip Part 1 of 6

This first shot is taken on the stone beach of the largest fresh water lake (by surface area) Lake Superior. We drove for nearly 15 hours to get to the Provincial park. So beautiful up north. One observation on the drive up here. So many A&W's. I might buy some stock.
To get an idea, we are still a days drive around the lake to reach Thunder Bay. The picturesque skyline of granite cliffs and pine trees would soon allow me to forgive the distance.











This photo was taken at Quetico Provincial park. Sunset across the lake. I didn't use any filters for this photo but I was disappointed when i got home to find this was the best pic. The Sunset was unbelievable. Quetico is home to well over 2000 lakes. We put the canoe in here for a while, but due to arrival time, it was only a while.


The next photo was take from the Terry Fox memorial in Thunder bay. I kinda screwed up this post as this photo should come before Quetico. Anyways, this is called the sleeping Giant. Terry Fox for those of you who don't know lost his leg to cancer. He was part of the track team in high school so after the operation pledged to run across Canada raising money for cancer research. He planned to run about 40km/day (most of us know as a marathon) and get this....on one leg. He started in St-Johns Newfoundland and made it as far as Thunder Bay which is over 3000 km. Most say his determination killed him, but he was recently voted as Canada's second most influential person of our time.














Finally, we have the first shot of the prairies. We reached Manitoba in the early morning of day three. When I talked to people around home about the journey they all mocked the prairies. "Oh the Prairies, you'll sleep during that part" but honestly, I found it to be quite therapeutic. A race against the sun to reach our next destination. Nothing standing in our way, two lanes of traffic and the simple beauty of farmland.

Stay tuned for more next week.