July 25th to 28th….Wawa…..

If you look it up on tripadvisor….Wawa’s claim to fame is a large sculpture of a Canada goose…….its true……..!!!!

We snagged a spot at Wawa RV resort…… a very nice back in spot with hydro and water. Nice park…nice people……phenomenal ( blistering..!!) water pressure in the showers…!!!!

No Wifi tho’….and very scant LTE….not sure if it has anything to do with the wildfires…but they told us at the office that they had been having problems with it and apologised…….No problem we thought….we will just whip in to Tim Hortons (which we had already spotted on the edge of town.)

Nope….no wifi to be had anywhere in Wawa….so….time to get out the old pen and paper to track our shenanigans ’til I can get some photos uploaded…..I guess thats the next thing on my learning list…is software to work offline…I’m sure this is not going to be the last place we have trouble with a connection…

Wawa……is …….sparse……!!!

Wawa is on Lake Wawa…….

There is a Canadian Tire..(yay)..but no gas bar..(boo)…and no wifi (double boo).

There is the Lakeview Hotel…which, my dear husband pointed out, if one were of a mind to hold a serial killers annual convention……it’d be the place to host it………no one would hear about it..!!

..and I had to smile at the solar panels on the church…….

oooo…..and the thrift store…(the Thrift Barn)…was closed first da we were there…but with a notice like this on the door…we just had to go back again….

But…..the funny thing was…when we went back…turned out it was totally the place to get an impressive variety of locally grown produce….(which we did….!!!)

But actually…Wawa…for all its tiny smalltown charm,,,,,,,turned into a fabulous spot…..

We stayed over at Wawa Rv Resort and Campground…..lovely spot….very nice park…..

And a couple of great hikes were undertaken…….first High falls to Silver falls…its listed on Alltrails as a moderate hike………it was at least that…..very pretty though….it starts at High Falls and finishes at Silver Falls….but both can be accessed by road if you don’t want to do the hike….

There was a clearcut section in the middle…..where the path became very unclear…we decided to walk back down and drive around to the other side……..which was good that we did…cos we also found Sandy Beach….

Silver Falls…

So the next day….the walk was along Sandy Beach……made famous by the whole Group of Seven connection to the north……..and the obligatory swim in Lake Superior……..It is fantastically beautiful

Interesting fun fact…….that I just found out……Lake Superior contains 10% of the worlds freshwater……apparently it has enough water in it to cover the entire North American continent……Canada included..in 30 cm of water….now thats a lot of water…!!!

Beautiful clear water…….but a little on the cold side for swimming….no matter…

There’s no pictures of me swimming…….cos I’m holding the camera!!!!!!!

As if this was not fun packed enough……the last adventure for this spot was finding out there is a ghost town here….finding it…and getting there……

Michicopoten Harbour was part of the first European settlement in the area……and so a harbour was built…and there was a town here……there are still some remnants of the buildings and the wharf……so we got the map out..to see if we could get there.

We followed the road…cryptically named Michicopeten Harbour Road……but it led to a gated road…

But you (one..!) could easily walk around the gate…and seeing no trespassing signs…no keep outs………so here we go……

A bit of a walk down the road we found a path that led down to the shore….from which we could see the remnants of the harbour…and could also see that we were as close as we were going to get…..

I included the little map just cos it gives an idea of where the place is…so we are actually in the bay across from the harbour……

So lots more fun in Wawa than expected….definitely a little hidden gem in Northern Ontario. Good friendly people…surprising myself that I can’t say enough good things about this little dot on the map…….

Back in the truck…heading for our first Provincial Park stay…at Rainbow Falls.