I made 2 trips to Sleeping Giant Provincial Park. The first time I was on my way to the international hostel in Thunder Bay so I drove down to check out the campground and on the way in I saw 10 deer. That was more deer than I had seen in my whole life.
The campground was called Mary Louise Lake and of course it was closed. However I met this guy there who wanted me to snap a pic of him holding a coors light so that he could send the picture to his friend. I took the pic and he returned the favour. After telling him about my trek he gave me the warm coors light. I would eventually drink it (after chilling).
After meeting Zach the couch surfer in Thunder Bay, he suggested I go bike the sleeping giant trail and I made it back to the park after the first snowfall only to find 34 more deer. (some of them may have been the same ones, driving in and driving out of the park and may have been the same as two days before - but anyways that is still a lot of deer!)
The bike trip down the Sleeping Giant trail was spectacular. Fresh fallen snow, maybe an inch and a half in most places, created such a quiet soft peacful bike ride. And it wasn't too much snow for my tires to handle. Based on the advice I got from my new friends at the Dream House, I biked out to Tea Harbor. The nicest thing about the ride was on the way back and looking down at the snow, my bike tracks, a few rabbit prints and a whole lot of deer prints was all that impressed upon the perfectly white snow. I felt like if I started singing, all the deer, rabbits, raccoons and birds would come out to me and travel along side my bike. And make me a dress.
After my bike trip I drove to the end of the road and came to a tiny town called Silver Islet. Once a very rich sivler mine, today is a quaint little town with a lot of charm. Was such a nice sunset that I was so in the moment I barely took any pics of it. That's probably a good thing, too many times I have found myself torn to just snap a photo of something or to try and really appreciate the moment. Anyways back to Thunder Bay for a presentation on the 50 day sea kayak trip that Zach did with his friends over the summer.
