Buggy in Obatanga Provincial Park

We were lucky to get out of Manitoba with relatively few problems with flies, but Northern Ontario is making up for it. We're getting eaten alive by mosquitoes and blackflies, and it only gets worse in camp when the sun goes down.

Indeed, as we had been told, the road out of Marathon was flatter for us, and we did fairly well to make it 130km along to Obatanga Provincial Park, about 40km past the town of White River. The flies here are absolutely brutal, but it will be a while before we can say goodbye to them (almost) entirely. They did, however, drive a big bull moose out of the woods for us to see before it ran back.

A big thanks once again goes to Joe and Larry for driving us out this morning along the gravel road into town. The people we met in Marathon were really fantastic, and we really appreciated their hosting us for two nights so that we could take a day off.

Tomorrow we'll go through Wawa, after which Highway 17 will get hilly once more on our way to the Soo.
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