Today was immensely irritating. I was hoping once again to make it further today and get to my parents house later this evening but once again the weather didn't want to play nicely. I was on the bike at 7:30 so that I could get to the south end of Manitoulin Island to the ferry terminal for the morning ferry. The ride down the island was 65km of non stop strong winds. I had hopes that when I got to the main land that the wind would be in my favor. No such luck. It was probably the strongest cross and head wind that I have had yet and it took everything I had to keep above 20km/h.

After waking up in my swanky hotel room at 6:30 and stuffing as much of their complementary breakfast into myself as I could I packed up to get out of the city. I was on the road by 8:30 and fought my way out of the death maze that is city traffic on the first school day of the year. I had a pretty large day to do at 150km and the morning wasn't as fast as I had hoped. At least half of the ride I had a slight tail wind which seems to make all the difference and I cruised my way to a campground past Blind River.

Karin treated us to breakfast and a packed lunch for our ride through the park. It was difficult to leave her place. She was such an interesting lady, I easily could have stayed there for another few days. It's times like that which make me wish I had more time to hang out and explore different towns.

The ride through Lake Superior Provincial Park is apparently one of the top 10 scenic drives in Canada. If that's the case, the top 9 must be in BC. There were certainly some nice sections, but overall I was fairly underwhelmed. Maybe it was just because of the grey skies.