Checking in on the old woman, again

Drift
Old Woman Bay, Lake Superior Provincial Park, ON
June 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

As the Sun slowly set behind a smoke-choked sky, we paused in the middle of our long journey to stop in at Old Woman Bay and pay quiet homage in a place that’s come to mean so much to our little family.

Indeed, something felt amiss as we stood on this windswept corner of Lake Superior and felt the sleeping giant’s winds on our faces.

Wildfires across Ontario and Quebec have painted the skies with a murky haze as they’ve touched off air pollution warnings across much of the eastern continent. New York City is a smogged in hellscape, and Toronto isn’t far behind.

We dodged road closures along the way as new fires added to the intensifying crisis and put communities across the country at risk.

It was heartbreaking to see the headlines - and even more so to see and taste it in a place so pristine.

This revered lake - and the lady who watches over her from her perfectly carved corner of nature - needs some richly deserved relief. So do the heroes fighting the fires. So does the rest of the planet.

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