Old Woman Bay
You've gotta love pareidolia. It's how we see the man in the moon or Pluto—the Disney dog—on Pluto—the dwarf planet. And just a 40-minute drive, north of the Lake Superior Provincial Park campground, heading on the Trans-Canada Highway, is a bay that is named after what some see as a woman's head—mostly, her face—either reclining or looking upward toward the vast sky, above. It's called Old Woman Bay. The landscape was formed by ancient geological faulting and differential erosion, followed by glacial activity and wave action, and is part of the Canadian Shield, with the oldest regional rocks dating as far back as 2.7 billion years ago. Tectonic and volcanic activity added fault lines that are roughly 1.1 billion years old. The 200-metre cliffs feature deep clefts and parallel geological faults, with differential erosion carving out the distinct profile that resembles a woman's face. But only from a particular angle—as best as we could see it, from the beach and...
