Final day - arriving in Toronto to a misty afternoon

Nice Sunrise at my Camp

I passed through an area known as Holland Landing - rich farmland and Dutch-styled canals

Onions, ready to gather

Toronto, close to my house - a drizzly misty day

Midland to Bradford

Horseshoers

Back to School

Irish Rebels!!

Barrie

Midland

I included the plaque commemorating the indigenous assistance in repelling the American army.

Wasaga Beach and Tiny

I guess even on a hot day people need sun to go to a popular beach

Collingwood

I spent more time than planned in Collingwood. It turned out that I had ridden all the hills wit a flat trailer tire. Worse, my pump was broken so I needed a bicycle store.

A day of heat and hills

Yesterday was a major challenge. Climbing hills with a trailer is always hard, but in the summer heat it is more daunting.

At some point one trailer tire lost air and I discovered my pump is broke. This morning I will stay in town until the stores open and I can replace the pump and fix the tire.

Always another hill ahead

Toward the end I had a lovely long downhill towards lake Huron.

A few more sights today

Today the heat was blistering. Summer cycling they have some benefits but it sure is hard to keep hydrated.

Leaving Goderich.

It's a nice little coastal town but not many pic this time through.

Rule number 43 of bicycle touring

Even if you just stopped 5 minutes ago it is required that you stop again and pay homage to a palindrome when it appears

Who knew that windmills corn and Jesus could find common ground?

Windmills on the coast

Beach time

I stopped for a little while in the beach town Grand Bend, which is right on Lake Huron with its beautiful beaches and reviews. I don't really understand people that like to spend all day on the beach regularly, but there's no shortage of them in this place.

There was little evidence that summer was winding down, but I'm sure a lot of these people had to be back at work or have their children in school tomorrow morning.

Oil bogs

I visited a fascinating museum today in Oil Springs, where the first commercial oil company was established in North America. Remarkable since I do not live in an oil rich province.

World's first oil refinery:

Wabash "cathedral" and Oil Museum in Oil Springs

A pause on a bridge over the Thames River

Interlude - crickets and wind

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Farm break

Jumbo stop

Jumbo was a well known circus elephant in the 19th century who died in  a train accident in St Thomas. Here is the monument to the elephant that gave us a new word for very big.

A day of different equipment

Delhi, Ontario

Apparently still the tobacco farming capital of Canada.
It must be a hard thing to brag about

I arrived in Port Dover just in time for watching the sunset over Lake Erie.

Short stop in Selkirk

Selkirk