August 8, 2024. Kingston to Trenton, Ontario

    We had 70 miles to go today so we got started just a little before 7:00. We had been hearing for a day or two about rain starting this afternoon and heavy rainfall warnings for tomorrow have been posted for several days due to the remains of Hurricane Debby. However, there was no hint of that as we started out—we had blue skies, clear air and sunshine. On our route out of the city, it was fun riding through some big store parking lots as that was easiest way for Google to get two bicycles out of town. 
   When we got back out to the water, we were seeing the east end of Lake Ontario which is impressive—all of a sudden you can't see other side any longer, just this one big vast body of water. 
   About 9:30 this morning, we reached a milestone for us, Kay’s bike odometer showed that we had reached 1000 miles on the trip!
   We saw electricity-generating windmills on large island out in the lake.
     We also saw some very large power plants as well as some kind of chemical plant that was loading or unloading a ship.  
  As we continued on, we began to see a few clouds in the sky, then a few more. They developed a pattern of small stripes that made Kay think of barred feathers on a bird. She could imagine a great big bird ahead in profile swooping down on something ahead of us. Then as the whole sky filled with these striated clouds, she imagined a body in the center and wings spread out on both sides diving down to the horizon ahead of us. This got her thinking about how superstitions develop.
   About noon, now fully overcast, we took a ferry in Prince Edward County from one large peninsula to another. The ferry is free as it is considered part of Ontario’s road system. Just as the ferry docked, it started to sprinkle and then rained harder as we ducked under an overhang by some washrooms. After a snack, the rain lessened, and on we went with a light rain. After a bit it quit. We had figured we would have on-and-off rain all afternoon, but after that it stayed unexpectedly dry. In Picton, after a stop at Tim Hortons, we started on the unpaved Millennium Trail instead of the Loyalist Parkway. We figured that if it rained more and the trail was muddy, we could always work our way back to the road. A first for Jim and Kay was to see nesting great blue herons. There were 3 nests quite close together up high in some dead trees with young in the nests.  
            In Trenton, we stopped and had some delicious fish and chips before heading to our motel. 



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