Cycling trip - Day 13

August 28th
Presqu'ille Park - Darlington

In the morning at the park P got a bungee cord (NLs = spin) in her face while trying to take down the washing line... fat lip. Not a great start, and we got going a little slower than normal, but weren't worried because it was supposed to be a 'short' day.

According to Sigmund we reached 1000km on a beautiful stretch of road, with the lake on our left, and fields and trees all around. Yup, there was definetly beautiful scenery while riding: orchards and the old, beautiful towns of Cobourg and Port Hope. In the first half of the day we rode through an area that reminded us of our honeymoon at Canvaschic and inspired us to dream about something similiar here.

We lost our patience on the wandering and wet ways of the Waterfront Trail on the Property of the Darlington Nuclear Power station. There was especially bad signage that made us frustrated and confused. It also started to rain. We cycled in the rain for the first time on our whole trip - boo! The path narrowed to a few inches at times and also crossed back and forth under sizzling electrical powerlines countless times. We were at a point in our journey where we no longer felt the need for "scenic" and just wanted to get to where we were going. However, the 'geniuses' that planned the Waterfront Trail through Darlington/Oshawa designed a looping, wandering recreational trail that we didn't appreciate. We had also gotten used to a much better trail between Brockville and Presqu'ille. We did 111km while we were expecting a short day of maybe 85km.

A pretty wet night at a beautiful camp site. Ready to go home? Almost.