Sunday July 27: Time to Move on from Campbellford

We've been docked here at Campbellford for the last 2 nights and it's probably time to leave.

Hard though. Power, great showers, internet on the boat. This is a pay for two nights, stay three so for free, why not spend an extra day?

Laundry is done, shopping completed, meeting new people - check. All is done.

You can see Guppy as the first of 3 boats on the town dock wall. Strongest internet is by the office :-)

It's been a very enjoyable few days here - except for THE BRIDGE (from which the picture above was taken).

Seems as though everything is "across the bridge" - or ATB.

Breakfast place? ATB. Chinese restaurant? ATB. Thrift store? ATB. Farmer's market? ATB. Well, you get the idea :-)

Bikes were the only way for me to go!

First score at the thrift store was a very nice broiler pan for the toaster oven. Sadly ... it didn't fit. So Steve is headed back tomorrow to just buy the whole toaster oven and donate our old one.

Nice farmer' market -

The best though was the ride along the Rotary Trail that led to the Ranney Falls suspension bridge. The first part was along the main highway south to the double locks (we'll go through those first thing tomorrow).

The bridge itself was pretty fun. Seemed to be somewhat disturbing to have nothing below for some folks though. Especially for some of the dogs we saw walking - plus it had to be hard on the paws!

 Once we crossed the bridge (pushing the bikes of course) we continued onto the path through the Ferris Provincial Park.

Interesting background: 500 acres left for public use by the Ferris Family. It's no longer a provincial park but is kept up by volunteers - one of whom we met today. A wonderful person - she invited us to return on Tuesday as she leads a one hour hike through the property.

The views along the waterway from the park are amazing. And how generous to donate the land - forever to be for public use.

One of the volunteer projects was to build a Chimney Swift nesting structure. Kind of fun since there was a nest of Chinmey Swifts in the fireplace at the farm when we were back this spring.

My brother Tom had zip locked the fireplace doors shut so no one would build a fire!!

Right click on the picture and select open in a new tab to be able to read the posted sign.

As has been the case in the previous areas where a falls would normally run, there is not enough water to run the lock, the power station and the falls, so it's the falls that has no water. Still fun to look at.

The rest of the road back was along wooded path. Most of which were an easy ride but others? Not so much!!

I was thinking of Matt with his new fat tire mountain bike - where was that when I needed one??

I just didn't think my little fold up bike was really up to the task of riding this path downhill over stones and roots!






Entertainment tonight was provided by one of the black squirrels in the area. I think my mistake was throwing out that first cashew :-)

But he/she was so cute :-)

Tomorrow we'll head out. Thunderstorm rolled through last night and due in again tonight.

Not bad though - rain at night. Sunny and nice days.... we'll take it :-)