Thunder Bay

Saturday, September 5, 2015

Well, our fabulous weather turned back to what we have experienced, fog.  But by about 2PM much of it burned off to reveal a partly cloudy day.  We went into Thunder Bay itself to visit some of their parks and gardens.  They have many nice gardens and it was nice to see their citizenry utilizing them for walks and biking.  Centennial Lake Park was nice with wide asphalt walkways.  We were looking for a sculpture park in it but couldn’t find it, so we moved on to Hillcrest with it’s sunken gardens. 

The park is a memorial to WWII veterans who lost their lives fighting in the War.  As we have reported, Canada was fully engaged just like the US.  The garden was very pretty with tons of annuals planted.  The flower bill must be staggering.

    

We then went over to Marina Park.  This area looks pretty new and is geared to get people there with artistic features.  The marina is also new and pretty neat.  Note in the dock shot, no pilings.  This seems to be typical of Canadian marinas as we had to deal with it in our boating journeys in Ontario.  Pilings offer better tie up protection in bad weather and give left-handed skippers something to bounce off of in docking maneuvers.

Dan’s camera has a 50x zoom; came in handy for this next one.

This is the Thunder Bay Lighthouse and was a good 1/2 mile from the marina.

There was an art gallery with some interesting works, like the ceramic bowls shown here.

After a DQ stop we headed east along Lakeshore Drive to explore parks and gawk at some nice houses with million dollar views.

That pretty much completed our day.  We are hoping for a continuation of this weather for tomorrow so we can go to the Hymers Fair.