Little Current- Bridal Veil Falls-Gore Bay
                                                             (Manitou Island)
     
          Weather is a constant issue.  Bill spends so much time each day checking weather sources.

         The town of Little current was a nice stop.   There was one restaurant, a grocery store to provision at and some cute shops.  It IS the biggest town  around here.

The shops sell a lot of knitted goods - knitting is big back here.  The heavy winter clothes  in the stores are amazing!  

I am learning to move fast!  In 90 minutes I made a batch of muffins, wrote a blog, walked to the grocery store and put the groceries away.                                                            

Bridal Veil Falls

A big storm was coming and Bill didn't want to stay in  Kagawong (very tiny) so we stopped there for 2 hours for me to take the hike to Bridal Falls with Claudia and David and then we moved on.  We stayed at Gore Bay (much bigger) for the night. When the storm hit that night I was glad we were in the safer marina.

Bridal Veil Falls

Bridal Veil Falls

A fish trap the Indians use.  The fish swim in the bottom and then the Indians spear them through the top.

Wedding dresses from one local family through the last hundred years, with a picture of the bride wearing it in the local museum.

We were told two weeks fron now this will be loaded with salmon - so many that you can walk across the river on them.  Timing is everything!

Rough seas today - NOT a travel day!

Gore Bay

Tough boats of a different kind around here!

An older gentleman showed up on the dock at Gore Bay and offered to drive us anywhere we wanted in his minivan.  Two other couples and us piled into the van and he gave us a 2 hour tour - drove us back to see Bridal Veil Falls again .  He was so amazing.  He sang us a song about the island (all 3 verses) showed us his pesonal pictures of the island over his lifetime and told us all the local stories. Charged us $30 (for all of us).

The biggest event ever here.   Daniel Dodge heir to the Dodge Motor Company worth $9.000.000 married the local girl here in town against his families wishes.  On their honeymoon here, after being married 23 days, he was messing with a stick of dynamite and he and his friends were severely injured.  They were taken by boat to Little Current hospital and on the way his body fell off the boat.

After years in the courts she inhereited $2,000,000,  but was forced to leave town because of the constant rumors.  She married 2 more times, the last for 60 years, and has donated many things to the small town museum.