Lee bounced Chuck down Manitoba highways 16 and 83 to Inglis. What a sight to see if you appreciate grain elevators. Five elevators in a row, re-painted and re-furbished.
Along the way back, we take highway 45 and see five more elevators, from full operational to ready to fall down. A great photo day.
We take in another museum, this one right next to the campground in Shoal Lake. The focus is the original Shoal Lake RNWMP barracks, a replica of which is used as the museum.
What a hop, skip and jump on the Trans-Canada across south western Manitoba today, and we are NOT taking the Schooner along HWY 16 tomorrow to work our way into Saskatchewan! What a confusing set of highway markers when you look up the Highway system through Manitoba. The Provincial Trunk Highway 16 is a provincial highway in Manitoba, the Manitoba section of the Yellowhead Highway, and also the Trans-Canada Highway Yellowhead section. Regardless of designations - it needs work. As odd as it may sound, with that many municipalities looking after our road systems - can they not work together Rhetorical question.
However, we did get off that grid and toured and photographed ten grain elevators today! What a great day to add to our count of grain elevators we have recorded. LOL - now to actually record them by townsite. In Inglis there are five grain elevators which are now a part of a national historic site and can be wandered through. There are explanations as to what all the parts of the elevator are for, which I appreciated. We also photo'd five more elevators - Oakburn, Sandy Lake, Shoal Lake, Angusville and Russell. Lee's hard work editing tonight has ended up with 170 photos from what we took!