Today is probably our longest ride of this whole trip -- nothing amazing, just about 120 km, but it was a beautiful ride in perfect weather through a very agricultural valley on roads with virtually no traffic. Hard to complain about that.
Before we left Wolfville we stopped by the farmer's market and grabbed a scone or two for the road. The market was just kind of opening up and the scones hit the spot.
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| The Farmer's Market in Wolfville. It would have been fun to explore but we had to ride |
Our route wound southward through the Annapolis Valley and we had about 30 km on gravel roads. Actually they were kind of like gravel super highways because they were great surfaces that allowed us to ride just as fast (actually, just as slow) as we would on asphalt.
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| Another day without wind |
By mid-afternoon we had arrived in Bridgetown. We are staying at a farm AirBnB just south of town and the place is absolutely great. They have 14 or 15 Icelandic horses, about 50 Cashmere goats, numerous Icelandic Sheep Dogs (really cool dogs) and lots of other critters. And they are just very nice genuine people -- she being German and he hailing from BC.
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| Cashmere goats (they're very curious) |
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| Some of the Icelandics -- they have three foals this year |
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| A very well behaved buck |
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| Several kids in the group |
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| The kids were really shy |
We are using this place as a base for our ride south tomorrow to Annapolis Royal. We are hoping to score some "Digby" scallops, which are said to be the best scallops in the world. Our timing does not allow us to make it all the way south to Digby, but word on the street is that they can be found in Annapolis Royal. We hope so. The weather doesn't look very good tomorrow but that won't stop the quest!
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