Monday April 21, 2014

I was awake early as usual, but we were not going to leave until after 8:00 because the breakfast was free and we needed to get our key deposit back.

Last night we shared the hostel with a group of Irish/Scottish couples – the girls went out shopping in the afternoon and the guys were getting drunk in the hostel.  Why do I mention this?

At any of the hostels we have stayed at, we put our water bottles in the fridge in a bag along with any food that needs to be refrigerated.  We have not had any problems with people taking our stuff.  Last night, we put our water bottles in the fridge and added another bottle of water for our hydration packs that are attached to the bikes.  We needed to add another bottle of water in the fridge, so we used our wine bottle (rinsed of course).  This morning when we went to get our water bottles the wine bottle was missing.  I would have loved to have seen their faces when they thought they were drinking a nice glass of wine and it turned out to be water!!

Tonight we are staying with Sue and Graeme in Carey Bay (Toronto) we had met them in New Zealand (Masterton).

It was a lovely ride, fairly flat and bushland until we got to Morriset and then hilly into Toronto.  I love the names of some of the Towns,  so good they name them twice.

The roads were fairly good and for the most part had a shoulder. We arrived at Sue and Graeme’s just after 1:00 pm.  We had a lovely lunch and a nice shower and then they took us for a drive of the area around Lake MacQuarie.  The Lake is about 150 kms around and is very pretty with lots of nice little bays with coffee shops on the lakeshore.  It is similar to Lake Simcoe, except without the ice floating on it.

We also went out to the old mental institution!! This is an area that has hundreds of kangaroos.  Some people go out to this place and feed them (bread) not a good idea.  We could get quite close to them, but didn’t touch them.  As we were leaving we spotted these two having a fight.  Graeme was just saying they were playing, when they started kicking and scratching at each other – no they were really getting into it.

Best of all a mum kangaroo with a joey hanging out of her pouch – awesome.

Ralf caught this one, which I think the Joey looks very uncomfortable, maybe Mum is telling him its time to move out.