Thursday August 6, 2015

We are so pleased that we took two days to get to Thunder Bay. The sun was out this morning and we had a lovely ride to Thunder Bay.

We had plenty of time to visit Kakabeka Falls. Kakabeka Falls, is on a par with Niagara Falls, it is stunning.

The Kaministiquia River was used by the Great Lakes Paper to float pulpwood to the Companys mill in Thunder Bay sending their logs over the falls.

The falls are located a short walk from the parking lot of the Kakabeka Falls Provincial Park.  Boardwalks and viewing platforms were built in 1980.

The falls drop 40 metres on the Kaministiquia River near the Village of Kakabeka.

We had lunch at a little café in Kakebeka Village. The waitress was very nice and asked us a lot of questions about our ride. We then became the celebrities of the café. People were almost lined up to chat to us; an older fella (Dave) who surveyed the road from Sault Ste Marie to Nipigon told us that they tried to keep the inclines to less than 6%. Another lady (Barb) overheard the conversation and came to chat to us, she told us to be careful on the roads.

We arrived in Thunder Bay and at our hosts house at about 3:30 pm. A very busy house with five children at home ranging from 19 to 7 years old.

It was a late night for us, getting to bed around 11:30, obviously a rest day tomorrow. Our room for the next two nights has to be the best decorated room we have stayed in on this trip.