Thursday August 13, 2015

First and foremost I have to thank Chris Jones for arranging our nights stay at the Wawa Motor Inn. Thanks Chris it was really nice of you to do that for us – although you didn’t know it, it was an early anniversary present for us. Tomorrow August 14, 2015 we will be celebrating 30 years of married life.

After a pretty good breakfast we headed out towards Lake Superior and sunshine. The hills and headwinds started straight away and Ralf got progressively grumpier. As usual we took it in turns to be at the front, but it didn’t seem to help much.

The scenery was nice but not stunning, yet.

We have been told that this section of the road is comparable to some of the “Great Scenic Drives” including the Great Ocean Road, Australia; Big Sur, California; the Pacific Coast Highway, U.S. and Cape Breton, as we have cycled the first three and have driven the last one, we will see if it is comparable. There were a couple of nice areas as we came over a hill and Lake Superior opened up in front of us.

We stopped at a few of the little bays. One was called Old Woman Bay, the rocks have the face of an old woman in them looking over the Bay.

Katherine’s Cove was very popular for kayakers.

We stopped at Katherine’s Cove for a pit stop. Interesting composting toilets. Ralf had gone to the shoreline to take some photos and as I went to join him a fells in a pickup truck asked if we had stayed at the Wawa Motor In last night. Yes I responded. He handed me Ralf’s horse whip. He was the maintenance man from the Wawa Motor Inn, he had driven 26 kms to find us to return the horse whip. He said it seemed pretty important to Ralf when I spoke to him about it. Ralf happened to mention to him how boring it got in the tent sometimes and that is why he has the whip!

We met a young touring cyclist (Adam) who is cycling from Toronto to Vancouver, he had wild camped for the first time last night. I asked him if he had slept much. His honest answer was “no not really, kept waking up at the slightest noise”. He is trying to do 150 ks a day. Ralf and I have decided that these longer distances are not fun and we are looking forward to getting into Southern Ontario where the Town’s are closer together and we can go back to our 60 to 80 ks a day.

At the moment all we seem to be doing is cycling, eating and sleeping. Although last night having the tour of Wawa with Ron was a lot of fun and we really appreciated it.

From Wawa to Agawa there is nowhere to stop for lunch. Fortunately we have oatmeal bars and trail mix to keep us going.

We are staying tonight at the Agawa Bay Provincial Park Campground which put Ralf into a bigger funk. The very expensive piece of real estate we are staying at tonight costs $40.00 and has a boil water advisory.

We can drink the water if we boil it for one minute. If we buy water from a vending machine it is $2.00 per 500 ml bottle. Agawa Provincial Park would definitely get my award for daylight robbery.

Although they do get a bonus point for having a laundry which is reasonably priced and we didn’t have to pay for the showers.

As soon as we pitched the tent we boiled some water and had one of our emergency ration meals – chilli. That was our lunch, it was pretty good for a dehydrated meal.

Later tonight there is a free concert at the amphi-theatre (if we can find it) and of course we get to see the free meteor showers.

Tomorrow is going to be another hilly day, but we are staying at a nice resort for our anniversary evening.