After a camp breakfast looking out to Lake Superior, which seems more like an ocean, we went again to the visitor centre to see the museum exhibits in more detail. We watched a video promoting a canoe trip on Sand River and spoke with a parks worker about his interest in the SS Edmund Fitzgerald wreck (1975, L. Superior) and the SS Daniel J. Morrell wreck (1966, L. Huron). We then headed out for our ~100Kms ride to just past Wawa (Ojibwe for Wild Goose). Just before our lunch pic-nic stop a car piled high with furniture and bicycles abruptly pulled over onto the gravel shoulder in front of us and out jumped three enthusiastic young men. They offered water and pepperoni sticks and excitedly spoke of their (Jacob and Charles') ride from Barrie to Vancouver and now Guiseppi was driving then to Pemberton as Jacob was moving there. They wished us well and drove away, waving from open windows. We peddled to a dryish covered info display panel where we made lunch and had two couples stop and chat. We arrived in Wawa and squished around the grocery store in shoes wet with rain, then took a break at Tim Hortons, and a photo stop at the giant Wild Goose, before peddling the last 10Kms to Northern Lights Motel, which has turned out to be wonderful! Standing in the pouring rain by the Wawa welcome goose were two young travellers, who were walking down to the main road to try to hitch a ride (eventually to Vancouver; their cardboard sign said "Nipigon", which is just before Thunder Bay). They commented on being hungry so we gave them our muffin and bread intended for our breakfast, as we have a few spare meals, just in case (an important back-country canoe strategy). We sorted out, spread out and are drying out and tomorrow plan for a quite sleep-in day away from riding.
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