Entry FeedEn route to visit the cousins in Terrace Bay, we stopped at the Pictographs at Agawa in Lake Superior Provincial Park.
We walked with the kids along a small (dangerous?) rock ledge to look at the pictographs, believed to be between 150 and 400 years old. They were painted by the natives, and show canoes, sea serpents, and Misshepezhie, the Great Lynx.
Historians are not sure how these pictographs have lasted so long. Cousin/tour guide told us that he did an experiment in school where he mixed moose blood with some of the rocks in the area (only in the north!) and it lasted the longest of the paints he tried. Husband believes that they repaint them every spring before tourist season starts. Benjamin Moore Moose Blood?
As we walk along this narrow, stone ledge on beside the rough and frigid lake, all I can think about is Gordon Lightfoot's song and the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Apparently, there is a memorial and wreck site nearby.
We also stopped to visit the Big Goose in Wawa (apparently the Ojibwe word for "big goose") where we first encountered those legendary Northern Black Flies. I rushed to the van while the northerners laughed. I grabbed the bug spray, and they guffawed. There were at least a dozen, I swear!
