3 Days on the Road: Manitoba & Ontario

Saskatchewan-Manitoba-Ontario
We are heading for a 6 night stay at Thunder Bay on the mighty Lake Superior starting tomorrow, 11 April. To get there we needed to make two long hops from Regina - one to just outside of Winnipeg and another at Dryden where we are tonight.

As we moved from the vast plains of Saskatchewan, then through the similar terrain of Manitoba into Ontario, we increasingly saw small lakes beside the road, holiday encampments, places for canoeing and swimming and riding and playing in the summer holidays. The skies have become higher, and there are actual rocks now, appearing after the prairies. The long stretches of field on either side of the road, have given away to a more featured landscape, and we’ve also passed through the even black pine forests that require fire to burn them. They all burn together and then grow back together which is why they are mostly the same height. Interesting! I always thought that Australian forests were unique in being pyrogenic … so much for my arboreal knowledge! We’ll be glad to be stopping tomorrow for a little while.Read more