Bronwyn Wilkinson and Gill Winckler tackling the Great Trail across Canada in pieces and whenever opportunity allows. It might take the rest of our lives to complete this little adventure.
90km Done for this year on the trail! It’s a thing on a bike - “rolling hills” roll up a heck of a lot more than they roll down. This phenomenon increases in the presence of a headwind. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. We set out under grumpy grey skies and hugged the coastline … Continue reading Day 62 – Queensland Beach to Halifax NS
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 … Continue reading Day 61 – Lunenburg to Queensland Beach, NS
89km A really pleasant day on the bikes - early morning heavy fog, late afternoon headwinds and narrow roads notwithstanding. Today was all paved road rolling through rural farmlands - think big fields and red barns, with occasional horses and cattle grazing. And lakes. Lots of lakes. Here the farming also includes Christmas trees. More … Continue reading Day 60 – Kempt (ish) to Lunenberg, NS
70km A bear!!!! 5 provinces and only our second bear on the trail - great excitement 😆 But we had to do a LOT of climbing for that reward. Fortified by a handful of nuts we climbed out of Digby in the morning fog and towards breakfast in Bear River. The climb defied the laws … Continue reading Day 59 – Digby NS – somewhere near Kejimkujik Park/Caledonia NS
33km Our shortest day on the trail, and it felt like a holiday. We skipped between a lovely and peaceful - if rough - trail and up-down shoulder-less Route 1 from Annapolis Royal through Clements and Cornwallis Park on to the charming village of Digby with its scallop boats moored in the harbour. The short … Continue reading Day 58 – Annapolis Royal – Digby, NS
62km Well that was more like it … from a cycling perspective anyway. The trail was open all the way which may have been harder on the bodies, but was easier on the minds than the roads. A crisp and early start out of Kingston took us to even crisper apples we picked from the … Continue reading Day 57 – Kingston – Annapolis Royal, NS
62km - the long way around After a light breakfast at the inn, we started the morning optimistically with a brief stint on the trail where a gorgeous barred owl flew out and perched above us. Our joy was shortlived though as we soon had to divert from the closed sections of trail, and spent … Continue reading Day 56 – Wolfville to Kingston, NS
102km today, 70km of it before breakfast. Bron a bit hangry by then. We shared a croissant in the motel before heading out of Halifax early to get ahead of the traffic. But it was foggy, and busy anyway. Breakfast was supposed to be at 37km but the chosen cafe was closed for the long … Continue reading Day 55 – Halifax to Wolfville Nova Scotia
We’re back at it and excited to ride the trail again tomorrow after work interfered in 2024. A red-eye cross-country flight from Vancouver brought us 6 hours later to Halifax, Nova Scotia, early today and we relaxed among the cruise ship passengers on the quaint waterfront for the first half of the day before unpacking … Continue reading Halifax, Nova Scotia
40km easy An unexpectedly easy jaunt, mostly because of a bit of misdirection on the Trans Canada Trail app and map. Having spent the evening researching, we decided to take the trickier route to Ottawa through Gatineau Park, which would involve some single track and pieces not meant for gravel bikes. But just outside Wakefield, … Continue reading Day 54: Wakefield QC to Ottawa ON
Trans Canada Epic 