Day 46 Lakes and Flowers what a sight!

We couldn’t leave this morning early as we had wanted to after having to give my ice bricks to the cleaning staff at the motel…their boss wouldn’t met them come earlier to give them to me and there was non way I could access them easily myself…so it ended up a A long wait for my ice bricks….by the time the lovely lady from housekeeping gave them to me I had nearly worn a hole in the carpet pacing….we had been ready since 6.45am…but true to her word she was there dead in 8am….what a treasure she was…I told her so too….

Over night at around 2.30am I had, had a weird experience with the sound of running water…lots of running water…I could hear it really loudly when I put my pillow to my ear…and I had this experience happen a few times on the trip…I had my ear into my pillow and could hear sounds that you couldn’t hear when you lifted your head off the pillow…so I started to think I had lost the plot… but the sound got louder…so I walked into our bathroom, no nothing coming from there…then I could hear it running on the wall the other side of us…..so I thought someone must be having a shower weird time, but people use showers for all types of stuff…so I went back to bed only the sound kept getting louder and louder more and more water…I as thinking my glory the water is going to start coming through the floor into our room shortly, so I got up again t check the carpet wasn’t wet…no the sound is getting louder…so I looked out the front window and could see that it was raining…by now I was positive there was a major water leak in between our rooms…but no evidence of water…I went back to bed again but it got the better of me I opened our very tight back door and just our side from the roof with what must be buggard gutters was a torrent of water like a water fall ponding onto the cement below making it sound louder than it should be…it was raining I must not have looked out the front window long enough…at least I solved the mystery because I really thought I had totally lost it…John woke up after all my in and out of bed going is it raining 🤪🤪🤪😩😩😩 that was a good hour after all my trying to find the mystery…
Next morning you couldn’t see any evidence of the deluge last night…that was until we set out to leave Fort Frances….The flooding in the area had increased heaps… sandbagging around one home was unreal…around the house, up the drive way …sadly didn’t capture just how many sand bags were being used…all the way along as we went from one little island to the next on all the counting roads between them you could see the ruse if the water…especially where we had driven yesterday seeing all the fisherman’s cars parked on a couple of the small islands..there was less room to park compared to yesterday….

Just as we were leaving 2 deer appeared but missed taking a pic of them…to be honest they see the only live animals we saw all day…a few little deadens but nothing else…😢😢😢

As we headed down the Hwy more and more wild flowers 🌺 were appearing….white daisies, little yellow ones,…. Then what we thought were red daisy type flowers but we discovered later they were burnt orange….then the purple and pink lupins started appearing wow oh wow so beautiful….there was just no where safe to pull up to get close up pics so lots of fly by pics, that just do it justice…the Hwy looked so beautiful lined with pretty little yellow and white flowers…with a hint of red as we dashed by….this went for hinders of k’s…there are more lining the Hwy on the way back than there were on the way over….especially the Lupins they have definitely increased in numbers….

The lakes big and small are back and for some reason look prettier on the way back than the way over….some of Lake Superior appeared again, my glory it’s a massive lake…

W changed time zones again so another hour lost….we left at 8.10 am this morning but with our time change it was really 9.10 am that’s late for us….but our hands were tired nothing I could do other than the wait for the ice bricks….

John noted as we drove along we had clocked up 11,000 ks today that’s huge K’s and more to do…
We stopped for mTea come brunch, come lunch whatever, got a horrible coffee and something to eat then powered on…. Then before we realised it with going at a good pace it was 2pm so stopped at a Husky Restaurant…they are like Ampol…where I had the soup 😳 not the best…John had a hot roast beef sandwich…. Well, Canadas take on a sandwich is very different than ours…you get the bread in the bottom meat plied on top of that with gravy floating it…with this hit sandwich came mashed potatoes and green beans…so very different than a hot roast beef sandwich we would get at home indeed….

Just after lunch as John was speeding up the Hwy, he noted a big area of my pretty Lupins and the were near a motel so we could park safely…so he turned around and headed back to where they were fir me to get a out in amongst them…sadly I could sit as the grass around them was ver high…I didn’t know what biteies might be there…what I did see were lots of blue bugs 🐜 buzzing around the flowers 💐 so got a few pics with the bugs…that alone was worth the stop….

Between our meal breaks was a stopover at a huge brand new lookout Nipigon River which over liked Lake Superior Wetlands, but also a massive bridge we did come over on the way up and now could be viewed from this very new huge lookout tower….worth th stop that’s for sure…

We continued along the Lake Superior to our final destination Schreiber…. Which from what I can see is just a roadside township of a 1,000 people, a few fuel stops, some motels and seems to be just on Hwy 17

Dinner was at the restaurant…. Ordered a pizza 🍕 but asked for it to have BBQ sauce instead of tomato 🍅 as both John and I would be up 1/2 the night with reflux…great I am thinking no reflux tonight…well I don’t know what they classify BBQ sauce here as but the stuff we had was very spicy and quite warm..,after one bite I knew I was in strife and knew John would be too….we only ate a little of the massive pizza and certainly didn’t take any takeaway with us…and yep up half the night…Glad I bought bags of Gaviscon sachets with me because tonight we well and truly used them.,,such a shame we couldn’t enjoy the pizza like we had hoped…getting old sucks…the old gut she ain’t what she used to be 😩…..

To be earlier we have an early start in the AM…big ks to do tomorrow….Read more