Sea Cliffs (8/13/23 Sun)

After coffee and a walk on the Piccadilly Park campground beach we headed for Oliver's restaurant. It was closed around 1000 on a Sunday. On the opposite side of the road we also saw Oliver's campground. We continued back to the south coast and out to the ocean point. We visited another closed breakfast hopeful called Capeside Diner. It opened at 1100 (30 minutes later). We continued to the point, which is also a campground called Boutte du Cap Park . The Park was setting up for a kids event with the local fire department. On the point there is also an off-road area. I ride up to talk with a guy unloading his dirt bike. He said I could probably get through, but would be far better off without the luggage. I told him my wife was back on the loop road, and I was just looking. I took sone amazing pictures before re-joining Anne.

Back out on the loop road I found Anne taking pictures, bike parked in travel lane of the empty road. This section of mountain road has no houses, but many photographic vistas. Eventually we reached a Tea Room on the coast in a town called Mainland with some of the best views. Breakfast all day, and a full page of teas... and one line listing coffee! All was good.

Our route back to the ferry revealed a number of new vistas that required photographing. One took us off the main road to get a better angle.

I decided we should kill a bit more time with one last ferry route deviation. Anne wasn't fond of the extra late day riding to see one more lighthouse. But I dragged her off route through Codroy to Cape Anguille Lighthouse. Well at least to their dirt driveway, I wasn't dumb enough to push that last mile. Our ride out and back was very scenic. Anne was very happy to have gone. We even found a restaurant with great fried chicken.

The ferry wants you dockside 2 hours before sailing time. We arrived 3.5 hours early, but it didn't rally seem too early. This is the first time we loaded with at least a dozen side- by-sides and only one other motorcycle. It really felt like they misplaced us until the very end when they split us off to the side.

We are getting good at what to take on overnight crossings. They have usb chargers in the seats. We can watch downlloaded Netflix with earphones. Our therma-rest seat cushions make decent pillows. And we take our water bladders, snacks, books, journals and jackets. Leaving all the bike gear and boots on the bikes.