It is hard to believe we are already at day 9, 22.5 more kms done from Miminagesh to Christopher Cross.
The day started out rainy and cold, seems to be our usual start as of late 😒 but it turned out to be all about meeting people and making new friends 😄!!
Not so great weather but again the team was in good spirits at the start. It is too bad it was rainy and foggy as we could tell there were some very nice views to be had, We still managed to take a few scenic pictures.
We had a few highlites of the day the first was meeting Todd!
We were very cold, and it was raining walking the road about halfway between Miminagesh and Christopher Cross when we did notice a crazy man outside gardening in his shorts. We were walking head down and concentrating on the path ahead and just as we were passing by he stopped us and said “hi are you ladies doing the island walk” we said yes and then he kindly asked us if we wanted to stop and warm up a bit and offered us some tea. We very gladly took him up on his kind offer. Todd and his wife Heather are running a Bed and Breakfast that is an Island Walk partner, it is called Thistlebloom B&B it will be opening shortly and for anyone looking to book a nice spot with a very nice host we highly recommend Thistlebloom. We had tea, cookies and a much needed rest stop and we were not even staying there 🤣 he gave us a very interesting bit of his family history and practically guaranteed that if you stay there you would see a fox, although we still did not see one. 😒
After our lovely respite from the weather we carried on to Christopher Cross. We passed by the Stompin Tom Conners centre complete with restaurant again not open for the season yet but I believe it opens June 1st, we took advantage of their stairs to have a quick snack and again get a bit of a reprieve from the weather and wind.
For those of you following the blog who may be planning you trip for the future today’s walk was all day along route 14, apparently this road can be quite busy but we were very lucky that we were traveling the road on the Sunday as the road was very quiet.
I have had a few people who have also asked me about timing and how long it takes each day, I can tell you that we are probably a pretty good example because we are not the slowest walkers, but we are also not super quick. We really try and take a lot of pictures, we probably break 10- 15 minutes about every 5kms (I have a terrible metatarsal issue so my foot needs a break a lot) and we try and stop for lunch or a snack if there is anything open and so far we aim to be at the way point start between 8:30 and 9:00 each morning and we have pretty much been at the way point end no later than 3pm each day. So on average we are about 6 hours a day. Of course some days are a bit longer due to the kms traveled for the day but I think using 6 hours as your base would work well.
Now for the rest of the day, we ended at marker 9 but that is not where our day ended.
We managed to connect with Ruby and Laurie two walkers who are a couple days ahead of us and they are staying at the B&B also run by our hosts Kyle and Connie.
Top photo Team BPM with Ruby and Laurie, bottom photo all of us with our hosts Kyle and Connie.
We swapped some trails stories, pet peeves, and highs of the trip so far. As well as exchanging some tips and tricks. It was a lovely get together and the reason the blog posting is late tonight.
A couple of milestones today, we have covered over 200 kms, and we are at the last single digit way point!! Goodbye 9, hello 10 tomorrow.
I hope you are all enjoying the blog so far, and perhaps getting some useful information, please feel free to leave some comments. I will check back in tomorrow. Good night all.
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