Wednesday August 5, 2015

The morning temperatures were quite cool, but the sun was coming up and warming the area. The morning mist coming of the lake was lovely.

We had decided to split the distance to Thunder Bay and stop in Shabaqua, half-way between Upsala and Thunder Bay (75 kms). There is nothing in Shabaqua other than a general store and a motel.

We had to pack away a wet tent, the tent was wet from the morning dew. Instead of eating breakfast with the mosquitos and black flies we headed down to the Family Restaurant and had a cooked breakfast again.

We headed out at 9:00 pm, the route was quite nice, rolling hills and warm temperatures. Again for the most part the cars and trucks gave us plenty of room. Of course, there are always a couple of idiots.

At the 35.5 km mark we crossed into the Eastern Time Zone. Sir Alexander Fleming came up with the idea of time zones after emigrating to Canada from Scotland.

The other landmark of note was passing another watershed.

We had to negotiate about 3.5 kms of road construction. We got to the front of the traffic and asked the flag-man what we could do to stay safe. He told us that we could cycle on the opposite of the road, where the bollards (traffic cones) were and we would be away from the traffic. We waited until all the traffic had gone through, then we headed down the newly paved road. Over 3 kilometres of newly paved road, with no traffic on it. The rest of the road to Shabaqua was nicely paved and had a good shoulder.

Arriving at Shabaqua at 1:30 we decided to stay at the Timberland Motel. We put up the tent in the back garden to dry out with the permission of the owner of the motel.