A Tale of Two Parks - first Obatanga now Lake Superior

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The situation with the flies was just as bad this morning when we got up in Obatanga Park. It has definitely been our worst experience to date, mosquitoes and blackflies just swarming around us constantly. In the morning, they were covering the inside of the flies on our tents, but thankfully relatively few ever made it inside, not even any "no-see-ems," tiny flies that you can barely see, but that pack a mean bite. MEC Apollo and Wanderer 2 in case you happen to be in the market.

We had our first real headwind today as we lunched in Wawa and settled down in Lake Superior National Park. The park covers 83km of highway, so we'll be in it for quite a while. We were a bit slow, so we decided to stop earlier than usual, about a 90km day, as we weren't too ken on going another 56km on windy hilly road to the next campground on the other side of the park. It was a pretty nice feeling getting into camp!

The girl working at the office was a bit surprised when we asked for a "windy" campsite. We wanted anything we could get to help keep the bugs away. Fortunately, this park is way less secluded than Obatanga was, so it was windy almost everywhere, but we spent most of our time at a neighbouring site that was on the water without a bug to be found. It was phenomenal, as was the dip in the lake. It's not actually Lake Superior, so the water was warm enough to comfortably swim in. Amazingly that's our first swim of the trip!

Tomorrow we'll make our way out of Lake Superior Park and will be heading into the Soo tomorrow.
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