Day 43 - Vermillion Bay to Falcon Lake - Tues, July 30

Last day of our big trip! We stayed at Chris and Lottie's hunting lodge until early afternoon, visiting with Lottie and updating the last few days of our blog, thanks to their great internet connection. Chris left at approximately 9:00 AM to go bait their bear feeding stations.

 Our campsite at Chris & Lottie's hunting camp

Suzanne & Robert...
leaving for our last leg of this awesome trip!

We were filling up in Vermillion Bay before we left and ran into Sheila and her friend, coming back from a visit to a friend's fishing camp just north of Vermillion Bay… what are the chances? Quick visit with them and we were off. We had nice partly cloudy skies and nice driving temperature. 

If you've followed our blog, you might remember that we posted this photo of the very insightful road signs that we have encountered on the Ontario highways, like this one...

Here's another one that we saw today...

We started seeing so much granite driving towards Kenora. Then, taking the Kenora bypass, we passed through the awesome rock cuts!

Click here for a 1 min 23 sec video of the drive through some of the rock cuts... Bill Hamilton's song "Canadian Shield Song" captures the mood of our trip very well! Thanks, Bill!

A beautiful, easy drive, back into familiar territory! Getting back into the Whiteshell, we wanted to take a photo of the all so familiar sign at the entrance of the park. Did you know that the sign is made up of actual granite? We had never noticed that until today! Very cool!

We filled up at the Falcon Lake Shell for the last time on this trip. 

We've actually driven 12,735 kms since we left Fernie with the trailer on June 14. We got to the cottage to be greeted by Colin, who had done a very good job of getting the cottage all cleaned up and ready for us. (We 're sure that he keeps it up meticulously at all times, whether we are here or not!)

During today's drive, we once again were expressing to each other how much we had so thoroughly enjoyed our travels. "What a beautiful country we live in!" seems to be the mantra of this trip!