I woke up at 6 am at my Agawa campsite in Superior East as has been the habit on this painting trip. Within minutes I was in the car and traveling up Frater Road. The car has a heater and the tent does not. The car measured the outside temperature at plus 4 Celsius. It felt colder and I had the car heater on full tilt to compensate. I was told that it was very scenic in Frater and I had to go. The weather was foggy with some drizzle but I had to give it a try.
The roads were constructed out of glacial till. The round rocks were sometimes huge like boulders and the rain from Alberto had washed the sand from around them. The round rocks made the road very rough. I drove up to the Village of Frater. There were a few old and empty looking houses with three big trucks parked outside. I saw two bull moose on the railway tracks that went through the centre of Frater. The huge moose simply dissolved into the fog and the drizzle when they saw me. There were several outhouses so I don't think any of these houses had running water. I would have painted something in Frater but the precipitation was far too heavy. I also wanted to take the Towab Trail that started from Frater Road but it sounded like I would spend way more time hiking than painting. Agawa Falls was at the end of that Towab Trail.
I did revisit the photos I took in this painting and #2191 "Algoma Central". I painted the village looking southward from the train tracks. The one red building had a "Frater". The other building had it own outhouse.
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