70km
Well that’s the drought in these parts pretty much broken then. And us soaked.
Another foggy start soon turned to drizzle over coffee at the Barn across the Lunenburg harbour. Then light rain before our breakfast stop at the Barn in Mahone Bay about 12km away. Mahone Bay is clearly lovely, but we couldn’t see much.
Then it was heavy rain out of Mahone Bay, which had us seeking shelter in a little wood-and-wisteria hidey-hole within the next 10km.
They love their flower baskets around here and once it dried out, and the road hugged the coastline it was very pretty, but the sun never came out.
Lunch was at the second-oldest pub in Canada – the Fo’c’s’le (est 1764) in Chester – another sweet old town of clapboard buildings with lots of “bumps” (dormer windows).
The bits of the Rum Runners trail we found that weren’t marked closed were also pretty, and we saw lots of deer and birds – maybe a function of a month of prohibition.
But we were mentally and physically done by the time we rode down to the Surfside Inn at Queensland Beach in more drizzle. It’s a quaint old hotel where bikes get locked to the railings outside, you can hear the surf across the road, and the food is really good (or maybe we were just really hungry).
Today: 70km
Climb: 560m
Total distance: 4,901km
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