Here we go!

After a long long day of packing on Monday, we finally got to bed around 12:30 am in Owen Sound, and then got up yesterday at 5:30 am and headed to the Chi-Cheemaun. Then we drove in hot, beautiful weather towards the Soo, along the way stopping for an awesome homemade (right out of our new cooler!) caesar pita at Bruce Mines Pier (about 3 and a half hours from where we docked). In between the Soo and our campground, Pancake Bay, we saw a few splashes of rain. We thought nothing of it .... it was still sunny! Then we chose our site, right at the beach, and as we pulled the tent out of the car the rain started. We managed to get the tent up and covered by the tarp, getting totally soaked in the process, and just in time Chris's mom showed up with beers and Cheetos. Basically a life saver! She was in the Soo on business and we all went out for an amazing dinner at a German restaurant called Salzburger Hof in Batchawana Bay right nearby. If you are ever up in that area, go eat there! The food was so good and there was so much of it that the leftovers even made for a perfect lunch on the Sault Ship Canal today.
We also checked out the Canadian Heritage Bushplane Museum, which had some pretty awesome old float planes, but somehow even though we were the first (only) people to get into the flight simulator when they announced the 5 minute warning we waited in the dark theatre for 15 minutes and never got the show. hmm... not meant to be. We just had to use our imaginations. One of the highlights of the day was watching a fox come out of nowhere while we ate lunch. He gave up on the geese pretty quickly and went after some other picnickers, thankfully upwind of us, so while he eyeballed them and eventually got on their table we had a meal and a show.
So we are staying in Pancake Bay for one more night, so that we can get our car a little more organized, and then we are headed north to Pukaskwa National Park on Thursday, where more adventures (and it looks like more rain) await us!

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