Just past Wawa on the way south, we stopped at a fantastic view of the Magpie Scenic High Falls. There we found a gorgeous waterfall. I love waterfalls.  Along with lighthouses, wild flowers, autumn colours, and churches waterfalls are among my favourite photographic subjects. I won’t bore you with all of my photographs. I will just bore you with some of them. We stopped at this little falls for about an hour or so photographing it and reading the plaques and talking to fellow travelers.

The falls stand 75 feet (22.8 m) and 124 feet (38 m) wide as the locals claim, “its magnificence is definitely worth the visit.”

In this area, the Magpie River is a likely remnant of an ancient glacial spillway caused when the massive continental ice sheets that covered most of Canada started to recede. The ice here was at least 1 mile deep at the time it started to melt about 10,000 years ago.

At that time the shoreline of Lake Superior was much higher than it is today. When that massive ice sheet melted a great weight was lifted off the land and that land, and huge rock base started to rebound upwards. This is called isostatic rebound and is still occurring to today and will continue for thousands of years to come. It rises approximately 10 inches per year.

It will continue for thousands of years more.  A few years, an organization of which I am a member, Native Orchid Conservation Inc. had a members’ night at which we invited Professor James Teller to speak to us.  He is the world expert on Lake Agassiz the massive lake that was created when the continental ice sheets melted and I talked to him about Lake of the Woods where we have a cottage. He told me that eventually the south end of the lake, where we have a cottage will be swamped when water from the lake comes over the top as a result of continued isostatic rebound He assured me though that when it happens I will be long gone, because that won’t happen for a few thousand years more. Those who have cottages on the north end of the lake won’t have this problem, but depending on where they are they might be a long way from the shore line.

After a short stop at Magpie Scenic High Falls we kept on travelling south along the Trans-Canada Highway.