Port Perry to Rice Lake (Birdsall Beach)
A day of farts & feet, laundry & lightning.
Riding was hilly but very doable. Had no problem finding a fantastic grocery story in Millbrook. We highly recommend it and enjoyed our picnic lunch on their stoop, which included peeing behind their bushes. We made 1 major detour after lunch when other cyclists made it clear that we were heading straight into Peterborough (Even though it wasn't on our route we were glad to have crossed the Otanabee River at Wallace bridge because it was so impressive). Saw a whole gaggle of blue jays* and cow statues**, etc. and a stupid police car (who apperantly doesn't know that that law requires him to provide cyclists with 1 metre). 
We got to our campsite just in time... the thunder had been rolling around in the sky to our left for about the last 2hrs of riding. Had all our stuff packed on to a picnic table with the tarp over top and held down by bungee cords, just as the rain started to pour! So the evening at Birdsall Beach Resort has been wet. It has rained since we arrived 5 hrs ago, and we're slowly managing to get things done. Now the tent still needs to be set up. Cooked dinner on the office/store porch which went well. Friendly staff let us stay inside while the power was out and it even hailed! We are now in the Kawarthas***! and we're writing this in a laundry room with an incredibly loud pump. Sigmund says that we've done a total of 305.5 km - 101.05 today in 4hr & 45 min.
*blue jays are a beautifully coloured bird, part of the crow family, but also a great baseball team in Toronto who will again make the playoffs someday.
**"Counting Cows" is a game we play where each person gets points for cows on their side of the road, but cow signs and statues are worth extra points!
***a mysterious and fantastical land that P loves to hear about on the radio weather reports
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