Saturday, August 22, 2015
It was a leisurely jaunt north to Wawa today, only about 60 miles. We stopped here to see a couple of falls, which we were planning for tomorrow, however the forecast isn’t too promising for tomorrow, so we went today.
The first one was the Magpie River High Falls. Not real big, but pretty.
The interesting thing is that the falls are actually the outfall from a power plant. A trail leads up to near the top of the falls, but it is all surrounded by 10 ft chain-link fence with barbed wire on top, Above the dam, not visible in this picture, is a big lake formed by damming the Magpie.The land was given to Wawa and the Rotary Club built the park.
The second falls were the Silver Falls. These falls are small and there are three of them.
These are the lower falls.
This was the second falls..
The trail was very bad the higher we climbed, so we did not get to the upper falls. Overall the Silver Falls were no more exciting than Sand River falls.
We continued to White Sand Beach, a few miles up the road. The beach is on Michipicoten Bay of Lake Superior. This was a surprise. Another white sand beach on Lake Superior? And a beautiful one at that. The water wasn’t bone chilling cold either, as you might expect. We cannot recall any sandy beaches on the south shore, and here we have seen two.
One last cool picture. Lynn shot this butterfly on some wild flowers
Not sure what we’ll be during tomorrow, probably visit the Big Goose!
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