83.3 Kms
We kept our good spirits in a blustery day and iffy lunch stop. Winds were apparently gusting up to 60 Kms per hour (mostly towards us) and so even down-hill stretches required some degree of peddling effortfullness.  Our choice of gear on the flat sections was for a 4% to 6% grade. It was so windy that our canoe safety storm whistles that are clipped to the front handlbars were tweeting on their own!  Somehow, the uphill sections were fine, maybe due to the wind trajectory being upwards over the hills. At some points, the wind was from the side, but happily from the West, so tending to push us into the gravel shoulder, rather than into the road-way. We only had about 80 Kms to do today, so we just took it slow and pretended we were bicycling in the Rockies! Lunch was at a road-side breakfast-all-day stop in Echo Bay (home of Robert-Ralph Carmichael, who designed the "loonie"), and it was good, but we think there might have been some kind of issue with Y's meal. We'll know by tomorrow morning, we guess :-) :-) Due to the shorter distance, we arrived in Sault Ste. Marie early enough to take a cab ride down to see the locks (a recommendation of Brenda at the hotel - she also shared with us her interesting garage-sale journey to Banff). We took a long stroll until sunset along the waterfront boardwalk, with Michigan, USA on the far shore. As we haven't camped for a few days, we are looking forward to the next two days of camping: Pancake Bay and Agawa Bay.

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