Since I went back to the Steam Donkey in Chippawa Bay after so many years, I wanted to go back to the second one, the one a lot say doesn’t exist, and some say does. I saw this one too but it is always amazing how ones memory changes sometimes.
The first thing I recall is the cord road, this road to my memory went left of the steam donkey, but as we looked we found that it went off to the right of it, we followed it for a while, through some clear cuts, locating it on the other side.
Its hard to see that a old road actually existed here but it did, if you know what to look for you always find the evidence.
Along the way, We stepped of the old raid and made the first discovery of the day, its an old fire bucket, still in pretty good shape with the paint still on it.
So after walking the trail for a little while, we got back to where the quads were, had some lunch and then moved further down the large cutblock looking for signs of the old road, completely gone it appeared, slowly we searched the area when something got my attention, a little deer trail. So We get off our quads and take a small walk into the bush, we walked following this trail for a little bit when I spotted it first, a bit of tin high in the air.
So after a lot of years, I had to admit defeat to my memory, it was terrible, yes I was 14, but its no wheres near where I thought it would be, and in an area I never would have looked originally. Amazing though that the wood was still stacked nice and neat beside this steam donkey after 100 years sitting here.
I took a lot of photos here, to preserve some history before vandals or worse come to destroy this, which sadly I know they will, but for now, enjoy what the pictures offer.
Soon to come Youtube Video.
