Manitoulin Island

Manitoulin Island is along the north shore of Lake Huron.  I took the ferry from Tobermory on the north tip of Bruce Penninsula to the island and when I left the island I went north over the bridge At Little Current.

Manitoulin Island has several Native reserve areas.  It is a hiking, biking, fishing, outdoor paradise.  It looks like life there is pretty simple/basic.  There are a few towns but nothing big.

The whole island is limestone so the trees and vegetation grows in just an inch or two of top soil which is easily scraped away.  I was told that growing a garden there is very difficult.  Here is a photo showing the layers of rock and the precarious hold that the plants have.

The rock on the island was useful in building some things.  Here's a very old church in Mindemoya.

I got to watch the salmon spawning near Bridal Veil Falls in Kagawong.

Look carefully, all those black things in the water
are salmon getting ready to wiggle into the river bed
to lay their eggs or fertilize the ones already laid.