Sault Saint Marie

I was fortunate to run into Ray and MaryAnne while camping at Sherman Park on the edge of town. It would have been a 4 mile one way walk with stuff I wanted to mail home and buying food for the start of my kayaking of the Southshore. Ray and MaryAnne are seasonal campers at Sherman. Interestingly they ran into and also assisted Bryan Hansel who I know from Grand Marais. He had paddled some of Lake Huron and went through the Soo .. camping at Sherman on the way to Superior's Southshore. I probably would have ended up staying 2 nights at Sheman had Ray not offered to run my errands wit his truck. I also sat around their fire Friday night and had coffee, eggs, toast and Grapefruit in this rig.

Ray and MaryAnne.. I guess the bright sunlight disguised them in shadow.

My little beach on the edge of the Park .. Sunset June 15

View of campground from where I put up my tent (and got away with it) The host said I'd have to move it to 'a site'. He said the security man would make me.. I said I can move it easy enough but I'll wait and try to talk the security guy into letting me leave it there near my kayak. I never saw the security guy and all was well.. I did pay my $20 however.. I have to find some free camping as Much as I can.. I don't have a budget to spend $140 a week in camping fees paddling the Southshore? .. Sherman Park.. They lock the gate at 11 PM and you need to find the campground host to unlock a shower if you want to take one.. Most surprising they also lock the restrooms from 11 PM until.. 8:15 AM. There are pit toilets and water elsewhere though I did not know it..

Point aux Mines to ...?

We are past Pancake Bay and Batchwana Bay. Lots of private property now. We're likely camped on some but there are no cabins. We are on a beach between cabins. We passed up on nice beaches for lunch due to there being cabins on them....we paddled on and on and finally decided to stop on a rocky beach even though there was a cabin up in the woods.
We had old remnants of swells less than half meter which became calm abs can be for he final 10 miles or so. Light winds which totally dropped to nothing toward the end. We are on mission to get to where the resupply was shipped in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. I'm just tagging along and tomorrow will be my last night with Dave, Amy and Dan. On Friday I will cross to Michigan, USA and continue paddling around Lake Superior while Wilderness Classroom will continue east through Georgian Bay of Lake Huron and on to the old Voyager Route that takes them to the St Lawrence Seaway.
I could just barely see Micigan today... I think It was Whitefish Point? It will be interesting finding a place to camp tomorrow night. Tonight was hard enough finding a place. I have located a nice little Park where I'll camp first night in Michigan, Sherman Park....It has camping. I'll have about a 4 mile walk to the grocery store and customs if they need me to check in? I'll call them when I get to the Park.

Didn't take many photos... We have officially left the beautiful, natural coast of Canada's Lake Superior and entered the zone of increasing residential and vacation development.

We came to a place with south shore geology.

Camped on a marshy beach area . Vacation homes in view across the way and we really don't know if this is private land but it's all we had to choose from...