After the past couple of nights roughing it in Killarney Provincial Park, I decided to treat myself to a night indoors. Ah, yes; The Park–beautiful; but swarming with black flies and mosquitoes. “But what about the tube of Odomos you’re carrying?” I hear you ask. Ah, yes; The Odomos–clearly the company’s R+D team hasn’t visited North Ontario in June.
Despite the bugs, my two-night stay at Killarney gave me a real taste of the wilderness of Ontario–saw Black Bears –twice; some wolf cubs; a turtle; and a raccoon. Ah yes; The Raccoon–little bugger unzipped my tank bag, found the granolla bars I had stashed in there, and threw everything else around the campsite. Never knew raccoons could unzip zippers. And yet, they don’t know how to throw the empty wrappers away.
Then, there was the scenery–my campsite was on a cliff overlooking the lake–talk about a room with a view!
Today was just brief ride into Sudbury to get some supplies (damned raccoon); and some minor maintenance on the bike.
Then it was onto Foxy’s On The Lake.
I hadn’t originally planned to stop here. But, with a name like “Foxy’s On the Lake”, you know I just had to come and check it out. Despite imaginations of tarted-up floozies doing the Can-Can, it’s actually just a cabin. Well, not just
a cabin; it’s rather luxurious B+B cabin on the Sagamok Reserve on the shore of Geogian Bay — the shower has more places for water to spray out than I can count!; the TV gets most US channels; and the wi-fi is flawless.
That said, being just a cabin, there was no place to get dinner when I pulled in; and the thought of navigating the dirt road I took to get here again was outweighing the need for food. Enter
Archie and his brother Howard, two neighbors: When I told Archie of my delimma, he ran over to Howard’s place; and Howard shows up with his truck; and the two of them take me back to town to get a bite to eat; and return me to the luxury of Foxy’s. Kinda builds one’s faith in humanity a bit.
Tomorrow I head toward Thunder Bay.