Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Ratter Lake & Sault Ste. Marie onward

On Monday morning we left the Hunstville area relieved that we were heading north and not south.  Traffic southbound was all but stopped as the long weekend came to a close and folks headed home perhaps in preparation of returning to work the following day.
We spent the night in a campground at Ratter Lake, at Hagar Ontario.  The lake looked so pretty with the smooth rocky edges sloping into it as we checked it out from the sandy beach.  It reminded me of Ellison Provincial Park on Okanagan Lake, in the Vernon BC area.  It was at this campground that we had our first campfire of the whole trip!  Out came the chocolate swirl marshmallows and the rest of the 'makings of a s'more'.  The stars were super bright and we had a good night out by the fire.
We're currently in a KOA just outside of the Soo.  We pulled in mid afternoon yesterday, prepared the trailer for the night (plugging stuff in and opening the slide etc), and then headed back into town (3-5 minute drive) as we wanted to check out the Locks.  Sadly no boats came through while we were there but it was good to see them up close anyways.
Today we're on to Marathon Ontario - Penn Lake Park.  Our hope had been to wake around 9am and to leave by about 10 but we had a noisy group camping across the path in front of us that were loud with their music and conversation until past midnight.  I complained about them to the camp host and was very happy with his prompt follow up. All that to say that I'm the only one up and while 10 is still achievable, sleep is more important right now.
I hope you're taking time to rest.  Thanks for your continued prayers.

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