Today was an interesting drive from Ivanhoe Lake to Wawa. Apparently the road is only used by crazy people like us. We had one stretch where we went 15 minutes without seeing another car, also we drove over an hour without anyone going our direction either in front or behind. It was a really nice road, just must be not well driven. 

Wawa is home to the famous Wawa Goose! It’s the largest goose statue in Canada and is 28 feet tall, 22 feet long, and has a wingspan of 20 feet. In town by a hardware store they have the previous goose (the original had deteriorated and is long gone).

It was laundry day, so once we got setup it was time to get the clothes washed. Brian also gave the trailer a good cleaning, it’s amazing how much dust/dirt a trailer collects in a week.

We decided to head into town and eat at a Chinese restaurant that we ate at the last time we were here with the boys and our pop-up camper. Unfortunately they only do takeout now, and we didn’t want to eat in the car. Instead we ate at the ‘North of 17’ restaurant (somebody really worked to come up with that name. 🙄

The waitress wanted to know what brought us to Wawa and during our discussion, we figured out that we were in Wawa 19 years ago on July 20th! In checking our website for our old trips, we found we even stayed in the same campground. Talk about a major coincidence, didn’t even look at the old trips when we planned this one, just knew we liked the area around Wawa and that we should stop again. The waitress was completely amazed and said it must be a good omen, also that she was just two when we were here last.

After dinner we headed back the way we came to visit a park we passed along the way. Brian was a bit concerned about its gravel road and whether we could turn the trailer around once we got down the road. Figured it would be easier without the camper and it was a nice drive. Potholes Provincial Park is one not to be missed if you are in the area. We were the only ones there and it was beautiful and peaceful in the early evening. By the way, the parking lot is plenty large for turning a trailer around.

They have a 300+ yard trail to the ‘potholes’, but surprisingly the trail took us forever to walk. Might have had something to do with the thousands of blueberries on both sides of the trail! Since we hadn’t thought of bringing a container, it was stop, pick & eat…repeat, all the way down the trail.

Once we reached the ‘potholes’ it was an amazing place, when the glaciers in the area melted, all the running water moved boulders around on the bedrock and eroded out the coolest features. Much of the area still is without vegetation, since it was  just bare rock left by the glaciers and the rock doesn’t breakdown easily.