I rolled my bikes back inside for the winter on Saturday. By the end of October the temp is quite low and it's no longer fun to ride. In fact, last night some areas of the province got a dusting of snow.
It was only 0C (32F) when I got up this morning.
Because of the pandemic 99.9% of our club rides and activities were cancelled and as a result my postings the past six months have been few.
But I did get in a last ride a couple of weeks ago on one of my favourite coastal roads. Forum members from this part of Canada will know what I mean when I say it's the Peggy's Cove Road.
It's a coastal loop I ride alone quite often. The loop juts out into the north Atlantic and is a very barren area with little in the way of trees and bushes. The harsh winter weather coming in off the ocean keeps anything much from growing.
Harsh in the winter; beautiful in the summer.
Because of that the land is wide open and you can easily see the boulders peppering the area as they were dropped there when the ice age melted. Some are massive.
Over the years this one in particular always fascinated me because it's perched on top of a hill. It's a massive stone and looks like it was placed there deliberately.
I always intended to take a picture and finally I did on my last ride.
This is a shot taken from the road. The going is too rough to hike there, but it can be done - just not for me
This is the same shot on full zoom. It's a massive stone obviously weighing a great many tons.
It was only 0C (32F) when I got up this morning.
Because of the pandemic 99.9% of our club rides and activities were cancelled and as a result my postings the past six months have been few.
But I did get in a last ride a couple of weeks ago on one of my favourite coastal roads. Forum members from this part of Canada will know what I mean when I say it's the Peggy's Cove Road.
It's a coastal loop I ride alone quite often. The loop juts out into the north Atlantic and is a very barren area with little in the way of trees and bushes. The harsh winter weather coming in off the ocean keeps anything much from growing.
Harsh in the winter; beautiful in the summer.
Because of that the land is wide open and you can easily see the boulders peppering the area as they were dropped there when the ice age melted. Some are massive.
Over the years this one in particular always fascinated me because it's perched on top of a hill. It's a massive stone and looks like it was placed there deliberately.
I always intended to take a picture and finally I did on my last ride.
This is a shot taken from the road. The going is too rough to hike there, but it can be done - just not for me
This is the same shot on full zoom. It's a massive stone obviously weighing a great many tons.
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