Spring will come....someday!

We are so glad that we stayed in the same place yesterday.

We had a great walk, a lovely afternoon nap, and another great meal at the Anchor and Wheel (again, broiled pickerel). And this morning, after a night rainfall, began with wind and cold once more. Temperature I think was about five degrees, wind from the north (so coming in over the water, which is even colder than that) at about 20 kph. And when we looked from our room over to the in , the owner wasn't yet there. So we even had to wait for an hour for our first cup of mediocre coffee.



Our plan had been to tour the Island today, and we already knew that the only place to get a cooked lunch was the Legion, so that kind of fit the plan. Bags were packed, and left at the Inn, and we took off on a circle tour of the island.



The first part was easy and fast, with the wind at our backs. We were sailing along at over 24 kph as we headed south. Along the way, we spied that the bike shop was open, so we stopped. A lovely lady, wife of the mayor of Pelee, runs the shop and we talked about business, about the island, and such. Then tried to get into the local Museum, but it was locked up and dark. As we wound our way around the island, we passed by scrub bush, farmers fields, woodland, housing/cottages. And the wind was a instant companion. Our hands were cold, my knees got chilled, but we persisted until we were back at the Anchor Inn to get our goods. The tour was about thirty km. long. Fortunately, we had the wind at our back again as we went down to the Legion for lunch.



Then we had to put in a few hours until the ferry left. The Museum was closed, the Legion kicked us out at 2:00 (they were closing). We decided to see if the winery was open ( we also considered crushing the aisles of the LCBO, which was open as well). When we went to Pelee Island Winery, it was closed, but there was a man inside working on some woodwork to get ready for their opening. He said we could come in and look around if we wished: another really kind and trusting person on this island.



The ferry left at four, and we had a short bike ride to our B&B. This B&B, on the shores of Lake Erie, was hit by a tornado about five years ago. She lost some forty trees, many of the 200-year old oak trees, picked up and laid down like match-sticks. She is still recovering. Fortunately, she and the house were unaffected. She was nice to us, even driving us downtown to get supper (a lovely Vietnamese restaurant), before us coming back to bed down for the night.



We travelled 38 km by bike today, not too shabby for the conditions.





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