Day 6 (461 km)
Tuesday – 2015-06-16
Little Current – Niagara-on-the-Lake (ON)
Great Start to the morning, sun is up and the weather is
cool but will warm up, so this will be a great day to be on the bike heading
home on my last leg of the Northern Quebec / Ontario Watershed Tour.
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| Garry' Restaurant |
Breakfast is a little place called Garry’ Restaurant on
Hwy#6 across from the Shell Gas station corner of Vankoughnet Street, good food
and priced accordingly – I like this place.
On my way by 8:30 I have to catch the 11:10 Ferry at South
Baymouth or I will be on the 3:30pm one and I will not make it home in the same
day.
There are two really good photo stops along Hwy#6 one at
Pepper Point Road Rest Area with a commanding view of Lake Huron (also known as
Little Current – Howland Centennial Museum, which is on the grounds of the rest
area). The other one is High Falls (High
Falls Rd, East side of #6, South of the Rest Area above by 8.3km or 24.9km
South of Garry’ Restaurant), both these are well worth a stop.
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| Lake Huron |
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| High Falls (off the #6 Hwy) |
I reach South Baymouth around 9:50 with plenty of time to
spare (like about an 1 hour), but motorcycles are put on first before cars and
are off first at Tobermory, plus the ferry is cheap at $32.75 for passenger and
bike, and the two hour ride is just so relaxing – down right civil.
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| Bikes about to load on Ferry at South Baymouth |
The crossing takes 2 hours and that allows
time for lunch on board and a chance to take some photos and video as we
approach Tobermory there is a lighthouse to the West on Cove Island, which is
part of Fathom Five National Marine Park operated by Parks Canada.
Ferry is docked at 12:55 and there is no delay in the 5 motorcycles
taking off, one needs to beat the car traffic to Wiarton, or you will have difficulty
to pass all the traffic once it gets spread out on Hwy#6, so no delay – just get
moving.
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| Lighthouse - Cove Island - Lake Huron |
I follow a couple riding from
Cold Lake, AB to London, ON, he works for the Air Force and had some good
stories of the Russian’s testing Canadian sovereignty in the North, he referred
to Canada’s response as “defending the realm”, I like that term. They turned off in Wiarton into the Tim
Horton’s and I continued on south. I am
going to try out a new route that I used in 2011 when I did my Bruce Peninsula
trip (www.ontape.ca/bruce) , so I am not going down Highway #6, I will go West
on Hwy#21 and then South on Bruce Country #10 Road to Hanover. After Hanover follow the #10 to Neustadt and
then south to Hwy#9 to Teviotdale and follow County #7 via Rothsay and Elora
into Guelph.
Just as I approach Chesley I spot a very large turtle on the
side of the road at the right edge, on the white line. I of course stop to see what this guy is up to,
turns out this Euclid is a 40lb Snapping Turtle, who has a long tail and makes
a quick retreat back to the ditch, but before he gets away there is of course a
photo op to be had, I was unable to hold on to this guy he was strong and I don’t
think was in the mood to chat, he didn’t snap either – anyway saved another survivor
of the age of dinosaurs, and continued on my way.
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| A large Euclid - was very big and powerful too |
I made a quick stop at Royal Distributing to get a pair of
waterproof motorcycle gloves by Joe Rocket (also found my pair back at the
house) so now I have two pairs.
A quick rundown Hwy#6 to Hamilton and the #403 to QEW and I
am home at 7:30pm, tired, bike needs a wash but what a great trip, would do
this again in a minute, maybe no rain.
Total trip distance is 2,280km (1,416miles).
A lot of other riders who view the blog always ask about costs for a trip, so here are two tables of Gas and Hotel lodging costs, not included are any meals.
| Gasoline Consumption and Costs |
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| Date |
Location |
Distance |
KM |
Litres |
Amount |
| 11-Jun |
Start |
|
69567 |
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| 11-Jun |
Barrie |
205.6 |
69772 |
12.54 |
$ 16.17 |
| 12-Jun |
Orillia |
53.5 |
69825 |
3.03 |
$ 3.85 |
| 12-Jun |
Bancroft |
135.1 |
69845 |
7.5 |
$ 9.29 |
| 12-Jun |
Renfrew |
135 |
69980 |
9.5 |
$ 12.84 |
| 13-Jun |
Maniwaki |
158.9 |
70274 |
9.1 |
$ 12.35 |
| 13-Jun |
Le Domaine |
103.1 |
70377 |
6.33 |
$ 8.42 |
| 13-Jun |
Senneterre |
200.9 |
70578 |
12.6 |
$ 17.50 |
| 14-Jun |
La Sarre |
189.5 |
70768 |
10.97 |
$ 14.96 |
| 15-Jun |
Timmins |
202.8 |
70970 |
11.7 |
$ 16.23 |
| 15-Jun |
Gogama |
151.6 |
71122 |
9.1 |
$ 12.48 |
| 15-Jun |
Chelmsford |
140.8 |
71263 |
7.3 |
$ 9.91 |
| 16-Jun |
Little Current |
123.5 |
71386 |
8.3 |
$ 11.48 |
| 16-Jun |
Hanover |
214.8 |
71601 |
11.2 |
$ 15.11 |
| 18-Jun |
END |
245.8 |
71847 |
13.5 |
$ 18.06 |
| Totals: |
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132.67 |
$ 178.65 |
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| Average: |
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$ 1.58 |
/Litres |
| Hotel
Costs |
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| Location |
Name |
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Amount |
Rating |
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| Maniwaki |
Auberge Du Draveur |
147.17 |
5 |
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| Senneterre |
La Bell Villa |
|
109.23 |
4 |
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| Timmins |
Super 8 |
|
113.55 |
4 |
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| Little Current |
Hawberry Motel |
100.57 |
3 |
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