Today began with such high hopes. We had stopped early the day before, made a good dinner (I still say not tasty, but nutritious and big!), and made feasible plans to get up early and cycle the Bruce Peninsula. More, the thundershowers hit at night, while we were all tucked away safely in our tents and sleeping bags. I was up at 6:30, and went exploring our temporary palatial ground. Behind us is a long cliff wall, which I had fun climbing, and all around are enormous rocks covered in velvety green moss. This place is beautiful in the morning after a rain.

So when the others got up we set about packing up, but just as the tents were halfway through being packed, it began to rain again. We hastily finished packing and got about to move out. When we got to the path out, an incredible wind picked up and it began to pour nasty frigid numbing rain. We took rope and built shelter under a tarp, thinking we would wait it out. I recall myself saying "This can't last all day." Well, maybe not, but the wind can get stronger and stronger until we can barely hold our shelter together. Ian is constantly running out into the woods to get new branches to mend our shelter. When Martin and I are shivering and lost for what to do, Ian darts back towards the woods and sets up a tent, in the rain. Then while we are warming up, Ian is outside making us coffee. What a guy. He helped us out in the perfect way at the perfect time, and it is so greatly appreciated.

Once we warmed up, we made a break for it, through the rain, backwards 10km] into Owen Sound, where we scrounged up a motel in which to dry our soaked gear and get a good night's sleep. My plan wasn't to take a rest day for quite a while, but we were forced into one. I suppose it felt pretty good, but I am more looking forward to tomorrow's ride up the Bruce Peninsula. Tim mentioned Colpoy's Bay, where the water is a blue-green Medaterrainian Sea kind of colour. It sounds beautiful!