Day 65 – Digby

Monday, September 01, 2008

Today is the Monday of the long weekend and the last day of the Digby Wharf Rat Rally. Nothing much was happening other than an all you can eat breakfast at the local restaurant so we decided to take it in. We had hoped to be in the midst of the hordes of bikers to see how much in the way of bacon and bangers they could put away, but I think after the late evening activities it took these bikers a bit longer to get in gear this morning. That plus the fact that it was raining again, and many seemed to want to get an early start on what promised to be an unpleasant ride home. The waitress told us they had about 300 bikers taking in breakfast the day before.

But they did not show for us: the breakfast was set to run from 8:00 to 11:00 and we thought we would do well to show up at 9:30, but when we did we had the place to ourselves. While we ate our bacon and bangers (to make the staff think we were bikers) a few of them did show up but by then we had decided to leave and find some free Internet in town as our campground did not have internet available. The campground owner had told us about a couple of places to try to get wireless access but none of them worked out. We did drive around town in general to see what sorts of signals we could pick up. This was very interesting as we could see various signals appear and then disappear sometimes within a space of a few meters along a section of street. We saw various private wireless signals coming from homes and business signals from motels, restaurants and even from the fire department. Some were unsecured so I tried to log on, but in all cases except one no connection could be established. The single exception was a private home which we could apparently connect to, but which I felt uncomfortable doing, so we drove on. We ultimately gave up and went to view the ferry terminal for the Digby to Saint John ferry. Lo and behold, the ferry was just appearing in the channel to Digby from New Brunswick, and lo-er and behold-er a bunch of Wharf Rat Rally bikers showed up to take it back to that province.

To our delight we discovered we could get a strong Internet signal at the terminal so we quickly downloaded our email and after Leo took some pictures of the bikers embarking on the ferry we went back to our trailer. It seemed Leo came back to the car with misty eyes, and I thought he might have grown fond of the bikers to the point where he had become tearful at seeing them leave, but it was only raindrops on his face. We stayed at our trailer for the rest of the day since it was ….you guessed it ….raining!. Leo worked on his pictures for the blogs and in the evening we went back to the ferry terminal again to upload our blogs and download our emails

The weather was supposed to clear overnight with mostly sun forecast for Tuesday. So we decided to make tomorrow, Tuesday our whale watching day! (That is if Leo does not chicken out yet again!)

Pictures for today can be found here.