Day 57, Monday, July 21, Sturgeon Falls, 103 km

We woke to rain on the tents and traded stories about the night sounds. The skies looked gray and threatening.
We retraced our steps to the highway heading to North Bay. It was a new highway with a good shoulder and with a bit of a following wind we made good time going through place names on the map (Coniston, Wahnaptae) towards Hagar where we had been told there was a restaurant. Brenda phoned to say that it was several kilometers further than that. Meanwhile the shoulder on the road deterioted again with the white line actually going through a pothole or going off the road surface with a 4 inch drop!
The restaurant at the Brunet Truck Stop was owned and managed by a young Mennonite named Kate; the service and food were great and she was genuinely amazed at what we were doing "at our ages".
When we got to the Dutrisac Cottages and Campsite on West Lake Nipissing it didn't take us long to decide to have our rest day here rather than in North Bay as planned. This is a real holiday spot ...... the water is warm and shallow with a sandy bottom. It has the right atmosphere for our day of rest.