Leaving the Soo and the Agawa Canyon

We left our motel early this morning for our return home.
A quick trip to Timmies for coffee, a bagel and a muffin and we are off.

We set the GPS for home and started to drive. The next thing we know we are on the bridge to the USA. I think maybe "The Donald" wanted to have a word with us. Probably to see how we enjoyed the Agawa Canyon.
A quick turn around, a reset of the GPS and we were on our way.

Our friends Bob and Sharon Briscoe had mentioned a spot just east of Blind River that they often visit and called it "their place"
After a lot of interesting searching, we think we found it. Well, maybe.

We did take some photos that we will send them to see if this is the spot

We left Blind River and through numerous road closures, finally arrived home around 6:00 PM.
All in all, a wonderful 3 days.

The Agawa Canyon Train Ride

We left our motel room early in the morning and headed for the Agawa Canyon Train Tour.

The tour is an unending mix of forests of the Canadian Shield.
It skirts the shores of northern lakes and rivers, crosses towering trestles and looks on the same rugged landscapes and majestic views that inspired the Group of Seven to create some of Canada's most notable works of art.

The bedrock underlying this area, formed 2.5 billion years ago, is among the oldest rock in the world.
The ice sheets in that area created the present terraced surface above the Agawa River and below the Canyon walls.

The train ride is 114 miles to the Canyon and hopefully the same on the return.

Why is it miles you may say, we are Canadians and we are metric.
Well, the mile markers were established prior to Canada going metric, and have remained ever since.

Enough of that history. Where are the pictures?

The 1st group show the fall colours as we headed towards the Agawa Canyon.

We probably need to add a few waterfall pictures as there are numerous waterfalls throughout the Canyon Tour.

We will show more waterfalls when we reach the Canyon.

Earlier we noted that the ride was 114 miles. It takes just over 4 hours to reach the canyon, so we arrived just after noon.

The stop at the Canyon is 90 minutes, and there are various hikes that you can take while you are there. Of course we opted for a couple of walking tours.
The 1st one was to the Black Beaver Falls. How to get to the top of the falls?
Your fearless adventurers were up for the challenge.
These pictures are Bonnie and I after we climbed down from the top of the falls. Unfortunately no photographs are allowed during the ascent or descent as it is too dangerous.

We do need a picture of our train that took us on the tour. There are 16 cars on the train.

I think a few more pictures of the fall colours on the tour are in order. (since I took so many).

The last photo was quite difficult to take as the train was crossing a trestle but the Engineer was willing to wait at the top for me after I took the picture. Quite civil of him I thought. He was Italian of course, so a very nice fellow.

Tomorrow morning we head for home, and tomorrow nights blog will be the last one of our Agawa Canyon Adventure.

Off to the Soo

We left early this morning for our drive to Sault Ste Marie.
As y'all know, the Agawa Canyon Train leaves from Sault Ste Marie.

The trip up was quite easy as there was little traffic on the roads on a Sunday morning.
We got to Sudbury in the later morning and headed west in Hwy 17.

We were looking for signs of the fall colours and did find some.

The 2 pictures below were taken around Spanish, Ontario.

This picture was near the town of Massey.

The 2 pictures below were taken of the fall colours around the serpent river.

Next we were off to meet our friends Bob and Sue for lunch at Blind River.
Bob and Sue drove down from Elliot Lake and we were meeting them at the 17 restaurant.
Lucky for us we saw a sign on the side of the road and knew we had arrived in Blind River.

Not sure what the sign said but we figured it wasn't "go home", so we looked for the restaurant.

Not sure who these folk are but they wanted their picture taken, so we obliged.

A couple of pictures of your fearless adventurers, and then Bob and Sue headed home and Bonnie and I headed for "The Soo"

On our way out of Blind River, Bonnie said to "flip a Uie" and turn right on to 17 to get to The Soo.

However, we were on a one way street and are now heading the wrong way approaching a paramedic van who was going the correct way. Oh well, we needed a bit of excitement today and that was it.

We arrived at our motel (The Catalina), around 4:30, checked in, and we are ready for tomorrow's train ride. Hopefully the fall colours will be good. 

Stay tuned.