While I tidied up and put everything away in the trailer, Ron got everything ready for us to leave Chutes Provincial Park and start our journey to White Lake Provincial Park.
It wasn't long and we were on our way. As usual I had my camera ready to take pictures of the landscape.
The first couple of hours traffic moved fairly well and then we found that traffic was gradually slowing down. It didn't take long to find the reason why. The highway as under construction.
As we drove along Highway 17 every so often I was able to catch glimpses of Lake Superior, and it wasn't long before we saw signs for Batchawana Bay Provincial Park.
Ron thought it would be a perfect place to go for lunch and I would be able to take photographs of Lake Superior.
Batchawana Bay is a 418 acres (169.03 ha) Park that was established in 1973.The Ontario Motor League placed a plaque at Chippewa Falls, showing Batchawana Bay as the mid-point in the 4,860 miles (7,821 km), Trans-Canada Highway; which is the longest national highway in the world.
It didn't take long to find a picnic site and we took some time to enjoy our lunch and then take a walk along the beach enjoying the view.
It wasn't long before we had to leave Batchawana Bay Provincial Park and continue our journey to White Lake Provincial Park.
Needless to say, we were once again back in traffic which was continuously being stopped due to the highway being paved.
One such stop was almost an hour long while they were paving an intersection, which seemed so much longer when you are sitting waiting with nothing else to do and cannot even leave the vehicle to stretch your legs.
We were fortunate at one spot, that we made it through before they closed the highway due to them putting the blasting caps into the drilled holes in the rocks so they could widen the road.
Gradually, there was more time between stops which meant that we were getting closer to our destination with more speed.
We finally, passed all the construction and when we stopped to refuel, we took some time to have supper before continuing on our way.
I was very happy that we were finally, making uninterrupted driving on the highway.
It wasn't long before we started seeing the signs for White Lake Provincial Park.
Finally, after 9-1/2 hours of driving for a trip that should have only taken seven hours, we made it to the Park and stopped at the gatehouse to get the map and instructions to get to our campsite.
We put the trailer into Campsite 79 and got it set up and ready for our first evening of camping.
After taking the dog out for a walk and strolling down to the lake, we returned to the campsite to relax before heading to bed.
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