Day 83, Aug. 16, Lord Selkirk Prov Park, 96 km.

The weather was a bit foggy and cloudy when we left this morning, that lifted to fine sunshine after about an hour. The route along highway 1 was hillier than we anticipated but we made good time with a handy tailwind. Just before Charlottetown we stopped at a little factory outlet mall. From there into the city was wall to wall with big box outlets, so we arrived disappointed with the city as it had recently become.

After lunch we headed toward the Lord Selkirk - lots of hills. Lo and behold, it started to rain. We stopped to put our rain gear on.

Suddenly Dave 2 said he couldn't find his cell phone. The last place we'd been was the restaurant so David said he would phone 411 to get the number so he could see if they had found it. Dave took the David's phone and got an automated message which he couldn't hear because of the traffic noise. Off he went away from the road to try again. He was away for a long time. Just before he came back, I said I hoped the phone was just lost in one of his paniers. So Jim said, "Why don't I phone Dave's number". So he did and we huddled around DAve's bike listening to hear whether his paniers rang. Instead, we saw him emerging from his quiet spot saying "Hello! Hello!" into David's phone.

By the time he got to us he realized it was his pocket that was ringing and not David's phone. Problem solved. Dave had automatically put his phone in his jacket pocket when he put on his rain gear then had promptly forgotten that he had done it. No problem. We were once again all ready to leave when Dave said "Oh no, I must have left my glasses where I was using the phone. I took them off so I could read the phone numbers." It will take him awhile to live that down.

After about 10 minutes on the road it started to rain buckets and we cycled into camp 45 minutes later totally drenched. It was the worst rainstorm we have yet cycled through. The rain kept up pretty much all night.

Our spirits soared, however, when Yvonne's friend, Donna (who lives in King City Ontario but spends her summers here) brought all the fixings for lobster dinner, including freshly caught lobster, potato salad, corn on the cob and lemon meringue pie, and we ate it all in a lovely shelter. What a great way to say goodbye to PEI after such a very short visit. Submitted by Carol.