ONLY 100 CLICKS (KILOMETERS) TO GO !!

Campbell River is a most delightful town -- very pretty, clean, with wide streets,
spectacular vistas of ocean, snow-capped mountains,and sail boats in quaint small harbours. We spent two nights in CR., and for my "rest" day from riding, took a ferry
to nearby Quadra island, where I did a 20 mile ride!! (Not very restful as the Island
roads were somewhat "Rolling"). Visited the Lighthouse that we could see from our motel in CR.
From CR the return journey Southward began. Once again the trip to Courtnay was fabulous as I had the wind behind me; the weather was as clear as a bell; the ocean could not have been any deeper blue, and the road was less busy as the Holiday weekend traffic was gone.
As we needed to get some more miles to complement the Northward trip, decided to try and camp at a lake called Lake Cowichan . However, the road there turned out to be a 60 mile per hour "Route 1" type highway with Loaded logging trucks, the Lake was overcrowded,
the campground was not pleasant, and "The Irish Pub" was CLOSED.So the sagster stuck me back in the van and we went back to Chemainus to the same Motel as on the Northern ride (a 45 mile day).
Today we left Chemainus(which is famous for the large murals around the town) and trekked Northward again to go to a marvelous B and B called the "Art and Soul" which is owned by an artist couple who do Pottery.However the
return trip was done so that we could revisit the Fairwinds golf club restaurant which serves THE BEST STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING in the world!! not to mention the fact that it also has my favourite SUDS on TAP!!. The ride was beautiful as we took a side road via a small "point" to get to the restaurant and then to the B and B.
Tomorrow we will return to Victoria for a few days to spend some time with Mo's cousins.I will then do the famous "Galloping Goose" bike trail which I believe is about 30 miles long.Will report to you from the road when we complete the last "leg" of the 760 Clicks.
Till then,
Ciao (from the "bikester and sagster )