Deflection

Tonight I have internet service from my cellular phone service, even though I am in Canada. Since I can hear the vehicles going up and down Highway 17, I have good tower reception, but with this much highway noise, I wonder if the traffic noise will wake me up from time to time.

I got into Muskellunge Lake State Park yesterday around 4:00, and the park is adjacent to Lake Superior and about 50 miles straight west of SaulT Set. Marie, but more like 80 miles to drive it, since there are few highway going in the direction that a person wants to take to their next destination.

Since I had time before supper, I decided to to walk the Lake Superior beach. I started walking the breach and remembered that it is nerve stimulating to go bare foot, so I walked barefoot for a mile and a half. And, yes, I would state that going barefoot on the beach is nerve stimulating. I do go barefoot at home. When I was growing up, it was really frustrating to walk around the house with wet socks from walking on the puddles of water left from snow melting off shoe and boots. I guess that this is my story,

Today, it was a beautiful still morning. but, at first I did not realize how beautiful it was, so I did not get the morning photos that I could have. The problem with photograph and the time of day. Sun raise is always the best time to get photos, but it is hard to get the photographer out of bed, especially in the summer when the sun comes up so early.

I when down to the Soo Locks around noon today. After working on the Mississippi River bridges for so many years, the locks looks like all of the rest of them. But I did find one really interesting point. St. Marys River between Lake Superior and Lake Huron is a rapids of sandstone, and this sandstone is so hard that the water flowing out of Lake Superior is not causing it to erode. By reviewing most sand stone, it is soft enough that a person can make makes in it and it does erode over time. In Montana, they have a sandstone that Lewis and Clark carved in during their expedition. So, St Marys River has really hard sandstone. Earlier this year, I hiked on Rib Mountain just west of Wausau and it is quartzite. Since quartzite is sandstone that was metamorphosed together, it is extremely hard rock. The type of rock that would be expected in the St. Marys River streamed.

I got here at Pancake Bay Provençal Park like after 4:00. After I got the trailer set up, I want walking on the beach again barefoot. This time I got in a couple of miles. This is more of a sandy beach. There was a dog that wanted to eat me, and even the owner could not control their dog, so I had to walk several hundred feet out of my way to get around the dog and the owners could careless. It is now about 8:30, and I just got back from the beach. There will be no sunset, but the water is perfectly still. I did not know that Lake Superior could be still. This campground is flocked with people, and they are wedged into the stalls. It is like people come here and spend several days with their family. (It has a little too much highway noice to call this a nice park.). But they spend their day on the beach. As I looked at it, it seemed to be a little too boring to set there and do nothing. Maybe it is just me. But I have more fun hiking, even if it is on the beach. Or, maybe with this health kick that we are living through, it seems like I need to keep moving. The world and it’s problems.

Tomorrow the drive is only about seventy miles and, hopefully, I will find the Lake Superior Providence Park will have a campsite further from the highway.

Roger