(along the Conception Bay highway)
daily stats
weather: rain, mist, fog
riding time: 4 hrs 42 mins 42 secs
avg speed: 16.3 (m) / 15.9 (b)
max speed: 47.5 (m) / 47.0 (j)
total distance: 74.81 kms
lost: 1 rubber ducky
after the obligatory photo with the highway sign, we ate pie in dildo. that couldn't be helped.
plus pie is extra delicious when you're climbing mountains all day, loaded down with 50 lbs of gear. but hey, i'm not complaining. the views are worth it. Route 60 winds up and down and around Conception Bay, mostly on the water.
in South Dildo bob says: "it's like the coast highway, without the California".
today we had to make a painful decision. we realized we probably weren't going to make it out to the Bonavista Peninsula and out past Clarenville to the abandoned community of Ireland's Eye...which is where bob really, really wanted to go.
even if we did make it out there, we wouldn't have the time to hang out for a few days to try and hire somebody to take us out to the island. and so we decided to head south. and after 3 days of going north, we could only do one of the southern loops.
we decided against the Cape Shore loop and the Cape St Mary's ecological reserve bird sanctuary and instead opted for the Irish Loop, but still had to take a detour down Route 100 on the Cape Shore loop to find a place to stay.
we ended up at the lovely and remote (like, horror movie remote) Fitzgerald's Pond Park.
aside from Sue and Dave (not Fitzgerald), the rugged ATV-ers who own the park, we were the only ones there.
camp deserato! it was nice.
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