DESTINATION


Growing up on the shore of LAKE SUPERIOR


Two boys write their own camping stories beside the world’s largest lake Story and Photos By Doug Hamilton


BRUCE AND CHASE jumped from the car and ran for the break- ing waves on the beach the minute we checked in at the camp- ground. Eight hours in a car with their uncle telling tales of his past canoeing and hiking trips was not their idea of fun. By din- ner, however, the car ride was long forgotten, the boys had made friends in the campground and skipped thousands of stones out into the lake. This Agawa place, they said, was looking okay. We were camped at the Agawa Bay Campground at the south-


ern end of Lake Superior Provincial Park where Highway 17 skirts the great lake before heading inland and north to Wawa. It was the boys who first pointed out a colourful conifer-cov-


ered headland called Rocky Point, located just a 15-minute hike south from our campsite. The next morning we scrambled up and around the point and watched the powerful waves crash into the red granite cliffs. “Awesome,” said Bruce. “I like this hike.”


Agawa Bay, Lake Superior Provincial Park 10 FAMILY CAMPING


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