Full route map

Here's the whole biking route we followed with different colours for each day:



The total distance comes to around 1310km - although depending on whose GPS tracks you look at it might be closer to 1400. Devices/apps which sample more frequently will tend to show higher totals as they cut off fewer corners in a twisty route.

Day 15: Back to Ottawa

Gary, Laura, Rachel, Lindsay and I bid adieu to our hosts and Saint Martins, and the adults took turns driving the van back. Apparently the distance can be covered in less than 11 days, but it does make for a less interesting trip...

We came back through Maine and Quebec, stopping for lunch at Amy Lynn's fast food in Madison, passing by Sugarloaf Mountain, and having dinner at the brew pub in Magog. Lindsay got the worst deal for driving, with a shift after the brew pub, with her passengers all being pretty dozy...

Weird soft drink from New Hampshire

We reached Ottawa shortly after midnight, with Sean home to greet us.

It's a bit sad to have the trip over with, but it was awfully nice to sleep in our own beds last night...

Day 14: Even more chilling in Saint Martins

Without Captain Steve Fischer cracking the whip (and nursing the effects of too much scotch the previous night) we had a pretty lazy morning. Gary did do some admirable work preparing a space in the barn and stacking firewood, but most of us couldn't claim any productivity.

Lindsay, Rachel and I took a walk along the beach and caves at low tide, showing a very sharp contrast from the same site at high tide which we'd visited with the kayaks the day before.

This rope is left for those trapped in the cove by rising tides

Rachel likes selfies...

Old Homes Week is a big deal in Saint Martins

In the late afternoon, Steve T, Laura and I took a shortish ride along the Fundy Parkway as far the Interpretive Center at Big Salmon River, where we enjoyed a coffee break and a short video about the history of the site and trail. Steve and I continued up the 16% climb on the other side of the Big Salmon River just to get extra sweaty while Laura had the good sense to poke around the foot path while waiting for us.

The Parkway is a ridiculously hilly and windy road, lots of fun for biking. Steve's Strava record at https://www.strava.com/activities/351884274 shows more than 1km of climbing in only a 34km ride. My own record of the same ride (as shown below) shows almost 200m less climbing and 1km less distance - the lower sampling rate I've got recording with Endomondo appears to be cutting off corners and the peaks and troughs of the hills..



The heavy fog meant we couldn't even see the near short of the bay, let alone seeing Nova Scotia across the water as suggested by the interpretive film, but it made for comfortably cool riding conditions.

Dinner was lobster which Jennifer had bought from Jim on the pier - apparently the last of the catch from Saint Martins for the season which had just closed a few days before we arrived.

Before the pot...

...and after 

Day 13: More chilling in Saint Martins

Keeping ambitions low, the remaining tour members went for a short morning walk along the Fundy Trail to see a flowerpot rock, then in the afternoon at high tide took turns kayaking to visit the caves.

Dinner was a protein fest - ground bear (made into sliders) and moose steak dropped off by a friend of Jennifer and Steve, and sausage from Huttges General Store. Delicious!