Biking Day 4:
50.06 mi, 1617 ft ascent, 7 hrs. 12 min.
Daily Drena: Classing up the joint
Lorena rated the breakfast as the best she’s had so far, due to the wide variety of choices available.
Today we started off on the Gulf Shore Parkway, which is apparently a tolled road, except for bikers. They have a lovely bike path the entirety of the parkway, so that’s a nice benefit, although somewhat unnecessary considering the lack of traffic. Beautiful seascapes along most of the route.
A quick jaunt after the parkway onto Route 6 led us into the town of North Rustico which was and still is a tiny little fishing village founded by the French fleeing capture during the Seven Years War.
Continuing along the road, we came across Gaudreau Fine Woodworking, which now has more pottery and other crafts than woodworking, but was worth the stop. Unfortunately, the owner passed away recently, so his daughter has taken over and it’s become more of a general craft shop, although she has started dabbling in woodworking. Just beyond that, we found another little gift store that has goats and alpacas out back, so Lorena had to stop and pet them.
Off the highway, we made it back onto the shore parkway and onto Brackley Beach, which stretches on for miles and miles of dunelands and beach sands.
Just before getting off the parkway and back on the road, we were at about the halfway point for the day so started looking around for places to eat. The only thing within a 10-mile radius was Dalvey-by-the-Sea, so we crashed the fine dining establishment, as we often do, and ate quite the fancy lunch.
After a number of miles on the road, we made it back onto the Confederation Trail and hit the 200th km, so took a commemorative photo. Miles rolled by as we travelled along the trail through the salt marshlands, with a quick stop for a milkshake in Mount Stewart to power us through the last ten miles to our stop in St Peters Harbour for the evening. Thankfully, we arrived just before the rain started and continued throughout the evening. Our hosts for the evening, Jennifer and Chris, were kind enough to offer us a ride to the local dining establishment, where we had some burgers and, of course, ice cream to finish up the evening.
Glad to see you finally had a big breakfast before the day of biking! And, you saw a fox – cool. This looks like a wonderful trip and you have certainly been fortunate to enjoy such good weather. Are your bums feeling better by now? Or just numb?
Our bums have officially transformed into hardened leather. At least mine has, Lorena still seems to be having some pains, but part of that is because some rude mosquitos decided to zap her on each cheek when sitting down and eating ice cream!