Monday, August 5, 1991
106904 = 500
To Rosseau
3:23 – 9:15 Up at 7:15 – Bfst McDonald $3.30 Can. Rail Fences – cream brick 1850’s houses – well tended farms – glimpses of Lake Huron – quiet views of Lake Huron
9:10 – N. of Givener – Nuclear Plant at Lake – Power lines across road.
9:30 – Pt. Elgin – Esso gas (not full) 38 litres $20 ($18 USA) Lots of Motels
9:45 ‘Southampton’ ‘Peaches and Cream’
Sweet corn $3 doz – Fawcett Farms in huge field – woods of aspen & willow
10:15 Owens Sound 20,000 pop. Sandstone bluffs – red brick houses – 69 degrees – ‘Golden Glow’ in pile of rubble – goldenrod blooming. Cut stone houses. St. Vincent twp view of Notrawason
10:30 Meadford Bayview Motel (Real view of bay) – houses right on beach, High Bluff ‘Blue Mt’ -Last of Niagra Escarpment – Arbor Vitae woods./ Bay along Rt 26 (Scenic Caves)
11:00 – Collingwood – Development – condominiums 95,000. Cranberry Inn
11:15 Wasaga Beach pop 5,000 – Tourist Town – middleclass – 67 degrees 510 miles
12:00 (at Rt 93 we took on 23 straight at Waverly-) rock fences piled up. Rt 400 ends – into Rt 69
12:”00 (100 mi on trip) – osprey – solid traffic southbound (end of long weekend) – granite cuts – Severn River
12:08 – S bound thinning some – 69 improved road since 1940’s – birch trees
12:40 Picnic at Foots Bay 180 trip
1:50 – 106988
Kitty & Vince Long so welcoming,. Cottage spacious, view spectacular Humming birds at feeder. Pork tnederlon * corn I bought at Scarboro.