Despite the distance the ride today was relatively easy. We left town at about 6.15am and soon turned east with the wind behind us where it stayed all day.
Stopped at Beausejour for a second breakfast of bacon, eggs, toast and fried potato. At this stage we had a few spots of rain and had all donned our rain coats because of the cold.
It didn't amount to much and they soon came off again. The real flat prairies stopped abruptly at 80 km from Selkirk and the forests and granite of the Shield appeared.
We stopped every 20 km or so and for coffee in Rennie, where there is just an old hotel and gas station. The sign says it all really!
Shortly after this photo we were riding beside a small lake when a Canada Goose charged out of the reeds at me! Reminds me of a similar occurrence in Europe along the Danube with Liz.
Approaching West Hawk Lake there were a few more hills but nothing serious. The campsite is right beside the lake. There is a wild deer wandering around the camp, allowing people to walk right up to it.
Last night there were a collection of strange looking vehicles at our hotel - these proved to be restored railway jiggers. There is a society of 2000 members in North America who run these jiggers on operational rail lines between scheduled services. They travel all over the continent in groups having organized jigger fests.
And I thought model aero planes was a strange hobby!
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