Day 50-A Beautiful day-------until------

Day 50 Distance 76.70 km. Time 4 hr. 6 min. Total so far 3581. 02 km. The fog lifted early from the finger of land where we had camped at the Red Cap motel behind one of the units. We stopped at the Acadian Village Museum down the road and met Shannon and her husband and two dogs who are here for the Tern Festival. They got to sleep in the Indian teepee because everything was full. Shannon is originally from Barrie, Ontario. I took photos down the road of the water, a lighthouse, and lobster cages that I missed yesterday. Back at the Irving gas station at Hwy 103, Dave talked to Brian, daughter Ashley and another guy. Brian was going across the country once and thought he could go from Sault Ste. Marie to Kenora on a tank of gas and of course ran dry but remembers he was lucky to find a gas station that was closed but accommodated him with some gas. Near the Barrington sign, 5 cyclists from the Yarmouth Bicycle club stopped and talked to us for a while. To continue our twin adventures, one of them has 13 year old twins. At Clyde River, we talked to a couple of the local men who were very friendly. The land along the highway looks like tundra in spots, and the rest is all cedar bush and swamp. We have not seen any animals. I listened to my music for a couple of hours as the road was not busy and the edge is quite big. We went into Shelburne to the grocery store and fueled up. I was disappointed because after the nice town signs with boats, I would have liked to see the waterfront but the main street was all ripped up and Dave didn't want to go farther on it. When we passed a nice little Youth Park at Jordan River and we knew there was nothing much ahead, we decided to stop for the day. We set up behind the canopy. Shortly after, we saw Rick and Carmen on the road and called them over. They had flown from Whitehorse to Halifax and are going around this side of Nova Scotia. In the past, Carmen has gone from Washington down to Mexico. After they left, as I was about to cover Silver for the night---Guess what---a flat on the back tire. We decided there is something in that tire that we just can't find so we decided to put on a brand new tire. That is 9 flats and because we are both busy doing the repair, we don't have a photo of any of them!