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rarely make history”. She laughed and said she was making a small

effort to break out and make history in her own

Best welcome sign on a camping, fishing outfitting store and

restaurant, “Eat here and get worms”. Hopefully a jest.

GRAND MARAIS to THUNDER BAY, ONTARIO and FORT WILLIAM

Monday - We had planned to get up before dawn to see the

sunrise on the shore. However, we were blessed with an overcast
sky so got to sleep in an extra hour.

We stopped at one more state park before going into Canada. This

was the Judge C.R. Magney State Park. This visionary man was
instrumental in establishing 11 state parks along Lake Superior. His

philosophy was summed up as, “Our state parks are everyone’s

county estate.”

This particular park’s focus is a spooky geologic feature called
Devil’s Kettle Falls. We walked a mile with many, many more of the

stairs for which these parks should be famous. The falls are 60 feet
tall. The peculiar part is what happens when the water splits into

two cascades at the lip of the falls. One side goes into a plunge
pool and continues down the Brule River to Lake Superior. The

other side thunders down into a hole in the ground and

disappears. It does not rejoin the Brule River downstream. In fact,
they have no idea where the water goes. Speculation is that it

goes deep into the earth to join a distant water table. The visual
and auditory effects were striking.

We crossed the border without incident and went to tour Fort

William at Thunder Bay, Ontario. This is a huge replica fort of the
original that stood near this site. It was the home base for the

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