Ponteix to Assinaboia
On the road by 8:00 to a beautiful blue sky and a wind in our backs. Both more than welcome! Hwy 13 is a beautiful road to ride. Not much traffic and fairly decent shoulders. Once again we saw rural Saskatchewan and all it has to offer. Thousands of acres of cropland as far as you could see. Farmers planting their crops with the largest drills we have ever seen. Wheat, barley, oats, lentils, peas, canola, flax, and chick peas. This is part of Saskatchewans 'bread basket'.
It is also the land of 'The Gopher'. They are everywhere and very often 'under' car tires. In Alberta we saw a farmer shooting at them as he drove his pickup through his fields. Today we saw a guy on a Quad going from gopher hole to gopher hole dumping poison down them. Bill Murray would be proud!!!
While having lunch today in Lafleche, we were approached by 2 people. They opened with: "We were looking for you guys, we saw you ride up". (Thought for a moment that we were in an old time Western)! The lady introduced herself as the town's administrator (I suspect that is the equivalent to our mayor) and the guy was from CTV News in Regina. He was doing stories about small rural towns in Saskatchewan. She was a typical politician. Born with the 'gift of the gab' as she told us all about the town and the agriculture of the area. The crops are late going in as it has been incredibly wet the last month. This is quite abnormal for this area. Usually it experiences drought conditions.
We had a couple of milestones today! We passed '2000 km' for our adventure and we rode over 120 km today, a distance we have never come close to before.
Daily Distance = 124.69 km. Time on the bikes = 6 hours 4 minutes. Average Speed = 20.31 km. Maximum Speed = 49.61 km. Wildlife Sightings = Deer, Pronhorns, Red Fox, Red Headed Ducks, Pintails, Coots, Shovellers, Gadwalls, Blue Winged Teal.
Kevin = 3 Sue = 0.
