Day 4 - July 15 - Longlac to Terrace Bay

Weather: Cloudy/Rain +20c humid, with rain showers in the morning and periods of cold (10c) mist in the afternoon.  

Distance: 364km, time 6hrs

This was a day that started out with lots of rain, and it rained very hard overnight.  We left Longlac with the Gas we had on board, as they only had 87 octane gas and we need 91 or 94.  We discovered that in the North 87 is the norm, anyway we had 30km to get to Geraldton and the Husky station with 91 gas.  I was fine still had 4.5L and one bar left, but Ben ran out 50ft from the station and coasted in.  It wouldn't be a road trip without one incident.

Geraldton is "a big place" with 2,500 persons, but the old CN Rail line to Thunder Bay (the Kinghorn Sub) is now gone as is the station, glad I got a photo back in the 1980's.

Geraldton is on the Ring of Fire, this is Ontario vast Gold and Diamond deposit which are now being developed in the North, you see this sign all over the place, as do you see massive construction trucks being moved on the highway.  Point on Hwy#11 the road is great shape up to Hearst and then it is a bit rough going to Longlac and even rougher in to Nipigon where it meets Hwy#17.

The old CN line through Jellicoe which has an abandoned bunk house.

Here on Hwy#11 is a massive Dump Truck (a CAT) being moved under police escort, but it won't fit through the bridge construction site unless they take down the temporary traffic light, so we are stopped fro about 15minutes.  Just another day on the road of life's adventures.

Now the Roxy Place in Beardmore has seen better days for sure, but this is a classic old theater building and worth the photo.

Lunch today will be in Nipigon at the Nipigon Cafe, a small family run business, not fancy but the food was good and the so was the price, plus in looked over the CPR main line - not a train in sight, these railway lines are very quite.

A very typical shot of the Trans Canada Highway (Hwy#17) near historic Rossport, ON.

Rossport Harbour on Lake Superior.  (Note of the fog and mist)

Rossport has a population of 130, but back in the late 1700's this was a major port on the lake and played a role in the building of the Canadian Pacific Ry.

We stopped briefly in Schreiber (once a a very busy CP Division Point)

You can see from the photo, not a train, car etc.. in sight.  The place is dead.

On to Terrace Bay for the night.  Arriving at 4:30pm, a bit tired, as riding in the rain is not fun.  A crow took off from the far side of the road and headed right for me, I thought it would strike me on my helmet, no, but it did hit the headlight dead centre and was dispatched to the side of the road - not what I intended to have happen.