11 Aug 2005
8.45 - 5.00 (Eastern time zone)
110.3 km
avs 22.2 km/hr
4 hours 58 mins travel time
Bananas for breakfast in our motel, then 20 kms down the road to Gary’s Esso truck stop and a good breakfast. The road is flat through peat bogs all the way to Raith, but not quite as fast as some head wind.
Two interesting things near Raith: The first is the time zone change and monument to Sir Sanford Fleming - chief engineer on the building of the railroad and inventor of time zones. The same spot has the large plaque showing our highway - Highway 17 - the TCH, and the highway of the first nations used by the early explorers for several hundred years. The route starts at Thunder Bay, upstream to Dog lake, then over a portage to Lac des Milles Lacs and the Hudson Bay watershed - could stay on these rivers all the way to the Cypress Hills.
The second interesting spot is the continental divide marker - we’ve been looking for it for days now and are surprised to find it so close to Lake Superior and Thunder Bay.
Cycling today was not so fun - head wind and NO shoulder. Very hilly coming into Kakabeka Falls. The falls are very dramatic.
Good dinner in small cafe - the person directing us there cautioned that we might not like it because no deep fryer…
