Our latest trip =
After doing Isle Royale national park we returned east through the upper peninsula of Michigan toward Sault st Marie and Canada. The upper peninsula was so pretty and the beaches were sandy long and empty, perhaps somewhere to return to.
We stopped off before we entered Canada to fill up with gas and have lunch, as we were entering Canada we heard over the radio that our dear Queen had passed away.
It was a very sad moment to hear that, and ironically enough as we drove through the border the first street we entered was Queen Street.
We, as most of you, have only ever known her as our Queen. I only served for her in our armed forces for 5 years, she served her country for over 70 years
It’s just a shame that some people can not respect the passing of our Queen & someones mother, grand mother and great grandmother, without putting disrespectful pictures, or comments on social media! Shame on them!
We have managed to keep up with the proceedings on the TV as they have all been showing extensive coverage of it all.
May god rest her soul.
We had 512 miles to go and we had booked into a campsite in 5 days time, so we stopped off at a Casino, boon docked for a night and then another 3 nights in another Casino, before heading into the campground just south of Niagara Falls.
We were going to stay in Toronto but when we hit the 16 lanes of traffic in the place we changed our mind and headed out of the city! Did you know that Canada is bigger than the USA and has a tenth of the population, just 36 million and 5 and a half million of those live around lake Ontario….we think they were all on the road the day we drove to Toronto!
While at one of the casinos near Toronto, we headed off to do some Geocaching, which took us to a place called “Grimsby”. Where we came across this most stunning little enclave of properties.
Our campground near Niagara was called Windmill Point campground on the site of an old quarry and it was lovely. It was also very close to Lake Erie, our last great lake, we have now seen them all.
At the campground itself, we were invited over to Mike & Teresa’s place for a few drinks on the evening before our trip to Niagara, thanks to Mike we nearly did not make it, why he spiked our drinks I will never know!
Some random shots of the moon , with no added colours.
We booked a tour through “See Sight tours”. Our tour was for approx 5 hours and included “Behind the falls”, “Maid of the mist” equivalent boat ride into the falls, also a tour of the area and a ride to the top of the “Skylon tower” our tour guide also gave us complimentary tickets for the tower again so that we could go up later and watch the firework show and see the falls at night.
The night before we left the campground, we were treated to a fish fry evening by Dan & Beth, attended by Mike & Teresa, and Crystal, Kevin & Noah. It was a lovely evening and we all contributed to the meal and the Walleye fish that Dan cooked was lovely. We also did a spot of fishing in the lake too.
I would have added a link to some videos I took, but the pc is playing up, so I will let you find them on my youtube page. Go hunt them out.
G&T
Terry, Gill & Kathryn in the US of A 