Just a reminder that you can click on the photos and they will enlarge, which might help with the map especially!
Lovely day today! We left Thunder Bay around 8:30, and an hour later, turned the watches back an hour as we entered the central time zone while still in northern Ontario. As you could tell from my last post, we were anxious to be done with Ontario today, and we did it. But we drove nearly 400km from Thunder Bay to the border of Manitoba, then about 200km beyond that to Steinbach. Our travels took us through lake country (see photo of map above!) with many of the lakes not shown on the map. We have driven through boreal forest (mixed deciduous/coniferous) for 4 days, and today we were in the transition zone, with boreal forest interspersed with taiga - coniferous trees growing in wet marshy land. We have seen hundreds of moose warning signs, but no moose! Lots of interesting geology, which put me in mind of college geography class years ago. I will post the educational photos in a second blog entry tonight.
Tomorrow we'll begin the Red Coat Trail which follows the US/Canada border from Manitoba through Saskatchewan to Ft. McLeod, Alberta. The Mounties followed this route in the 1800's on their way West. I'm told that the geography is much more interesting than that we would see on the Trans-Canada Hwy. route.
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