June
18/06, Sunday Day 45 4272 Kms
Canis
Bay Campground, Algonquin Prov. Park 110 Kms ~ 5:30 Hrs
Left
Jenn & Andre's kind of late, Andre was making a run to look at
some surplus building material. Took a looping back road through
cottage country to get to Huntsville. The ride was hot. High
humidity, warm temps, and lots of (short) steep hills on a good road
that wound itself along the rivers and beside the lakes, all crowded
with summer homes & cabins every few hundred feet.
We
rode into the wind up to a triathlon in Huntsville. Simon
What's-his-name (Whitfield),
the Canadian Olympian was there as well as a few other luminaries &
about 1000 hobby triathletes. We stopped at the Tim's and wound up
talking to a retired couple who had run the marathon part. The gent
suggested "pose running" as a solution to sore knees. He
called it, "Running like a girl, but it works."
It
started to sprinkle outside of Algonquin Park & rain as we passed
the first campsite. We decided to stop at the next available. Well,
that was a ways & in the mean time it started to pour. I could
hardly see. When we got to the campsite turn off it was up a
gravel
road with a small river running down the centre of it. Being a
government campground there was an
air
conditioned
kiosk
with 4 staff at the entrance and we weren't allowed in until we had
filled out a survey, paid & been assigned a spot. We paid $33 and
went in to find our spot under 3" of water. We never used it but
moved into the laundry room instead.
There
must have been a fair amount of economic activity in cottage country
in the 1800's. There are canals and locks linking a lot of the rivers
and lakes that now provide recreational opportunities to the folks
who live and vacation here.
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