Over and up

Today was to go from Trepassey to St. Mary's. This meant traversing a peninsula, which of course means going up hills. We were told that it might be a long hill, and it was. But not as bad as those we had met the first two days. And it was foggy, although the fog lifted quite a bit by the time we got going. The photo is looking back at Trepassey as we left.






You get an idea of the amount of climbing. Again, once we were up, we were in the 'barrens", and this time it was really barren: no trees, nothing but scrub, moss, and wild flowers. And one little house stuck out there with, incongruously, a locked fence at the entrance to his drive.


















This trip across the barrens went on for about twenty kilometres. There was wind and there was fog. Temperatures were moderate, so it wasn't too bad. And traffic was very light.

Then a lovely long, curving descent into Peter's River, St. Stephens and St. Vincent (The three communities are all within a few kilometres of each other). Here we stopped, and Darlene came back with an excellent lunch, which we ate on the tailgate.


After that, we were off again for another 20 Km to Glaskiers, then St. Mary's, and finally to Riverhead. (Here, we found that the local saint was St. John the Worker, who was the patron saint of, among other things, the cemetery.)

At that point, we had covered about sixty kms altogether, and I was ready to quit. Barry agreed, so the bikes went into the van, and we drove to a hotel/camping area/golf course called "The Wilds", where we are now. Tomorrow will be a driving day, going up to Heart's Content (don't you love the names?).

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Location:St. Mary's, Newfoundland, Canada