Agawa Bay to Point aux Mines

We had calm winds at first but up to 20 knot winds from the south were in the forecast by afternoon. The wind picked up throughout the morning and we ended up crossing to Point aux Mines with increasing winds. We had lunch at a potential campsite but ended up going out closer to the end of the point and decided to camp. It is supposed to ease up a bit mid morning which means.. We can sleep in. It's 18 miles to Pancake Bay Provincial Park where we hope to reach tomorrow.
We swam in shallow warmer water pools at our campsite and I slipped on algae covered rock.. Cut my elbow pretty good and my hand a little. I jarred my right shoulder in the process too which was more of a bummer. Later in the evening Amy also discovered how sharp the rocks are here with a deep gash to the front of her ankle.
Wednesday..day after tomorrow is supposed to really be windy which is why we hope to get to Pancake Bay.. It's a better place to be windbound a day.
It's been pretty hot the last few days. Hard to believe it was freezing just over a week ago!

Ready to launch .. Dave at Leona Point

Where we had lunch, 15 miles from Agawa Bay campground

My tent .. Dave and Amy's tent

Dave seeking a better network connection .. Dan sitting in the evening sun

Almost sunset

Agawa Bay

Here's where we are .. The big campground

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Beatty Cove to Agawa Bay

We're camped at the RV campground at an electric site in Agawa Bay. It's odd to be camping with highway noise after such a long stretch of remote Lake Superior coast. We'll be paddling out of Lake Superior Provincial Park tomorrow heading toward Pancake Bay. sounds like we're may see some thronged winds tomorrow afternoon. Potentially a headwind of 20 knots. Perhaps it won't start blowing until we've camped. With continued good paddling conditions we could be in Sault Ste Marie in a few days. ..saying our good-byes. I first heard of the Agawa Bay Pictographs in the 1980's. Finally I got to see them.. It was nice and calm.

The morning at Beatty Cove .. Dave somewhere later in the morning

Dave at the mouth of the Sand River .. Our lunch stop in Sinclair Cove

Approaching the Agawa Rock pictographs.

The Agawa Rock pictographs.

The Park Visitor Center

Our campsite at the RV campground...

Old Woman Bay to Beatty Cove

Today seemed like maybe the favorite day of paddling so far. The conditions were so glassy and the coastal scenery amazing. Much of today's memories will be the underwater scenery as we paddled along. The Devil's Chair, which I'd heard of maybe 15 years ago I saw for the first time. It was more interesting than I'd expected perhaps in some ways due to the glassy conditions. I believe the real and original name was Nanabozho's Chair and of some spiritual or legendary importance to the Ojibway. The Jesuits did a lot of renaming in their quest to demonize anything of a spiritual nature that was not Christian.
The campsite setting at Beatty Cove is beautiful but it's now raining and I'm in my tent preparing a blog post to send next chance. Likely tomorrow when we'll be at the RV campground with showers and laundry.
We will be passing the well known pictographs at Agawa Rock tomorrow and it sounds like another calm day.

Ready to launch and off we go...

Cool underwater views at Grindstone Point.

Lunch stop...Ryan's Point

Heading toward Devil's Chair...

The Devil's Chair...

Paddling past The Devil's Warehouse...

Beatty Cove beach....

Heading along Lake Superior Provincial Park

After 3 nights camping at Naturally Superior Adventures we are back on our way. 4 of the guide staff from there joined us for the day. We paddled to Old Woman Bay and they were picked up. We decided to just call it a day and camped there.. Here. It's really just a picnic area and a campsite is just down the beach about half a mile but we figured it would be ok camping here. A Parks Canada pick up truck drove through and only waved so I guess we are correct.

We had 4 Naturally Superior staff join us for the day.

A few photos of the day...

They load 4 kayaks while we contemplate just camping where we are...

Camped in a picnic area..

World RV Travelers

This retired couple from the Netherlands camped at Naturally Superior one night. The traveled from home on a boat across the Atlantic with their custom off-road RV.

Ton and Anneke have plans to explore Alberta, British Columbia, Yukon, Alaska..then Dow themes coast through Mexico and Central America to Argentina where they had previously been with the same rig after exploring much of South America when a medical emergency in the family forced them home...