Wintery expedition

Highway 11

Highway 630

The bridge

View from the bridge

Last Monday I drove up North for about 4.5-5 hours to Eau Claire Station, a hamlet somewhere between Mattawa and North Bay and about 30 km north of Algonquin Park. Hmmm i suppose that means nothing to most people. I'll have to find a map of Ontario.....

Anyways took photos along the way (kept me entertained) and listened to cds from the 1990s when I lost interesting radio-station contact. I must say that I am slightly saddened that there is a Walmart in Huntsville (where I of course stopped for a cup of coffee at Tim Horton's). Huntsville reminds me of fun family camping trips in 'pristine' wilderness and cottaging... somehow a Walmart within 5 minutes of the entrance to Arrowhead Provincial Park just ruins this for me. Oh and the purpose was to document a bridge for work... and there turned out to be more snow than I had realized, or any of the survey people who were there at the same time as me, for that matter.

While a lot of driving - it was a wonderful day and I think as of last Monday I was officially happy to be back in Canada.