We had a great variety of temperatures for our trip this week. I brought one pair of bike shorts, one pair of long cycling tights, and one pair of fleecy winter cycling tights. I wore all three. Today I wore the winter ones.
Since we are returning to Brampton today we decided to just do a short ride to see Trenton, and have coffee where we drove to on day one. An extension of the Millennium Trail passes near Cindy‘s sister‘s house and ends at the marina in Trenton. The surface is not as good as the section we did two days ago, and deteriorated as we went north.
The Murray Canal is part of the Trent Severn Waterway. It cuts straight through the narrow strip of land connecting Prince Edward County with the North Shore of Lake Ontario. It’s 8 km long, and links Lake Ontario with the bay of Quinte. It was built between 1882 and 1889 to provide an alternative shipping route to the treacherous waters surrounding Prince Edward County. It has two swing road bridges at Brighton and Carrying Place. A couple hundred metres away, at the millennium Trail extension between Carrying Place and Trenton, there is another swing bridge, but it sits perpendicular to the trail, thus necessitating trail users to detour to Highway 33, Loyalist Parkway, to cross the canal.
We stopped for a couple minutes to admire and photograph this property on the canal.
This road took us back to the trail on the north side.
At this point, the trail turned into double track and was quite rough.
The light was quite pretty this morning.
You can see how bundled up we are compared to previous days.
At this point the trail is right next to Highway 33, and is quite rough, and interrupted in places for new development, so we rode on the paved shoulder.
When the trail shifted away from the highway., we turned down this small road to get back to the trail.
The last couple of kilometres into Trenton were paved, and had solar powered lights placed frequently.
Trent Port Marina is a 375 slip marina located on the Bay of Quinte, at the mouth of the Trent Severn Waterway. The boating season ends on October 31, and all of the boats were out of the water.
We came across several murals in downtown Trenton.
This is the main street.
The tower is all that remains of the former post office building erected in 1888. The architect was Thomas Fuller who was the architect for the Canadian Parliament buildings, and the Albany State Capitol , which I wrote about here, along with almost 80 post offices. Only 16 of those 80 post offices still exist. I visited the one in NIagara Falls. In 1971 all but the tower was demolished to make way for City Hall and a parking garage. In 1979 the tower was designated as a heritage property.
We had coffee at The Grind, and sat in comfy seats in the sunny window.
We saw numerous abandoned buildings along the trail in Quinte West and Prince Edward County.
We encountered a couple of sets of P gates on this section of the trail.
As you can see this section is quite rough with large gravel.
Here is Cindy about to cross the Carrying Place swing bridge.
We dropped in at The County Emporium, which has a coffee and wine bar and eclectic mix of items for sale.
Another one and a half kilometres and we were back at the house. We cleaned up after ourselves, packed our belongings, and headed back to Brampton with Oakley. The poor thing trembled all the way back to Cindy‘s house. I’m sure she will be very relieved when her people return home to get her tomorrow.
It was very enjoyable to be able to spend a few days in a beautiful new home and an area which I haven’t been able to explore very extensively in the past, and I look forward to being able to go back and look after Oakley, and explore further in the future.
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