Waking up through the night periodically to the strong wind or the sound of rain, I was worried we'd be packing up a wet if not collapsed tent (the tarp was really flapping around). Thankfully, it was dry when we got up, having dried up just before 5am! God is so amazing! We have not had to pack up our tents while it is raining at all, also we have never had to bike in the rain all day!!!! I was glad that I had taken a day for myself yesterday, today was amazing! Sara and I rode beside each other a lot of the way. It was rolling hills with a few steeper climbs but not bad at all. We rode along the Gulf of the St. Lawrence today, so many beautiful views. There was fog on the water in the morning and then a light rain for less than an hour, it was then sunny for most of the rest of the day! We passed over a lot of train tracks at the beginning of today's ride. While it was misting, we came upon some cyclists stopped by some train tracks. Len was motioning us to the side, telling us that they were treacherously slippery and we should go on the side. To be safe, I walked my bike across. We found out why after, so far 3 people had fallen on the tracks. One had taken a pretty solid fall, going across at full speed. He had road rash down his side. Thankfully, nothing serious. Jim B also fell, he had tried to go toward the side but hadn't gone far enough over. As we approach the end of the trip, we are getting tired and maybe too relaxed with our precautions. Please pray that all the cyclists will remain safe and will take the extra precautions needed. We continued onto and as we were biking through a town, there was an additional note to our guiding arrow to turn, "up hill" and then just before the turn another note, "STEEP". We quickly geared down and good thing too because it was a very steep hill. We really appreciated that warning and made it up the hill. At one point we got to bike over a bridge/causeway and the views were stunning! In my haste to take a photo (maybe while biking 😬) I ended up dropping my phone! Thankfully I have a drop proof otter box case and it had no cracks. We ended up stopping very often for photos. It really is too bad we couldn't have taken a time lapse video of the entire trip, such beauty God has created in this country we call home. For the last 30km or so we were passing through Acadian country. They have their own flag which basically looks like the French flag, but with a gold star on it. It is a very beautiful area. New Brunswick is very full of friendly people, greeting us or honking at us; While at one of the rest stops, a truck pulled over and asked us what we were doing and we were able to explain and give him a card about Sea to Sea. While biking, Billy comes up beside us on his motorcycle and encourages us or sings to us, today he sang "You are my sunshine!" Sara got a video of him singing (you can't help smiling even on a bad day!) and I got a picture. We made it to camp pretty early in the afternoon which is at the Superior Middle School in Bathurst. Yes, Sara and I are sleeping inside! We also were able to wash some laundry because it was a warm and windy day. This was much needed because we haven't been able to dry our laundry for the past few nights with all the cooler/wet evenings we've had. My clothes dried really quick today because I hung them up on the fence. I had a relaxing afternoon, even got some more reading in. At the evening peloton we heard that there were 5 falls in total today and 10 flat tires (it wasn't too surprising, Sara and I had passed several cyclists fixing flats). We also heard that one of the cyclists who had joined in Ottawa went home today because she had injured her Achilles; please pray for a complete recovery for her. Sara and I enjoyed our day and I'm feeling pretty good now.
118.6km
5h 37min
21.1km/h
773m elevation