North Shore Rock Paintings

It's been a week since I've posted. Finally, we stumbled upon a cyber cafe in an actual city. Still, I've always been of the opinion that it's the journey, not the destination, that defines us.

So with that in mind, we've taken a number of unexpected detours, just because something caught our eyes that seemed cool.

In Agawa Bay, on the north Superior shore, for instance, there is a rather treacherous trail that leads down from 'terra firma' to 'not so terra firma' along the craggy rocks of the shore line.

Along the way, this sign greets the intrepid explorer.



The sign means what it says.

A few paces, and a couple of sure-footed slips later ...



A brief left turn, and one transforms from a biped into a quadruped of convenience, in order to descend this ...



I semi-facetiously mused about suing at the Human Rights Commission for a wheel chair ramp.

Then, after climbing another mound of slippery rock, and inching along a slimy cliff ledge, one reflects upon the warning of the sign at the top, and soon encounters the object of the detour ...



These pictographs were created by the Ojibway, using a red ochre pigmented dye. This pictograph, although it looks a bit like a smiley face, is apparently a war canoe ...



At any rate, for the edification of the curious, the pictographs are explained here ...