It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best since you have to sweat up hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate rememberance of a country you have driven throgh as you gain by riding a bicycle


Ernest Hemingway




Sunday, 15 May 2011

This is more like it (Fri 13th May)

Left porpoise bay early this am, very cold last night , slept in cycling gear, hat and had sleeping bag hood up,
rained a lot in the night but didn't get eaten by a bear which is good. Sunshine highway was sunny today so all is forgiven BC road naming department.


Had planned to catch the 1230 ferry
From Earls Cove to Saltery bay and actually arrived bang on time, much to the amazement of an old Canadian guy who had passed me on the road many miles earlier. The ferries in BC are excellent and the views of the sea and mountains spectacular ,


also serve good food. Got bibbed by Canadian lorry driver as I pulled legwarmers off at the side of the road( they do look like stockings I suppose ) which was pretty cool. Found nice little campsite in Powell River


and had a hot shower...lush that is. Cross the sound to Comox tomorrow and turn south , long way down as they say . Highlight of the day ...... Ice cream orieo cookie and coffee on the ferry watching the amazing scenery drift past



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