May 14 - Red Rock to Manitoulin Island

We got up fairly early this morning, as we have a long day of driving ahead of us.  Our hosts treated us to a breakfast of delicious blueberry pancakes with maple syrup, bacon and coffee and orange and apple juices.  After breakfast we got our bags packed and were off.

This was the view of the morning from the Quebec Lodge.

It was a beautiful day's drive, along Lake Superior, that goes on, and on..., and on....  We took some photos of the ice still on the lake.

We drove through White River, where the story of Pooh began...  Of course, I had to get a picture of this!

We had wanted to stop for dinner at a couple places we saw on billboards, but when we got there, they were closed for the evening.  We came into the town of Little Current, and spotted a pub that appeared to be open and thought this would be a great place for a bite to eat.  They even had the Montreal vs New York playoff game on - how could we lose?

After dinner we had to get on the road again, as it was becoming dark and the rain was threatening, again.  It was about 40 more minutes to our destination.

We finally got to where we were booked to spend the night, on Manitoulin Island, at Mindemoya.  At this point, it had been raining off and on all evening, and it was dark, and we were both tired of the day's drive.  We checked into Manitoulin Inn, and were glad to be able to stretch out and put our feet up.  We couldn't find the ice machine, if there was one, and neither of us had enough change to get a coke or something similar from the vending machine...  So we turned in for the night.

Mileage to date: 3,917 kms.
Gas in Wawa, ON: $1.47/litre
Gas in Sault Ste Marie, ON: $1.39/litre