August 16; 99km; 767m vertical

Abram Village to Wood Islands
Our schedule for today foresaw us riding via Wood Islands to New Glasgow in Nova Scotia but it turned out that it is 175km plus a couple of hours for the ferry which was overly optimistic for one day so we decided to only do the 150km or so to the ferry port. Even this proved too optimistic. We set off under sunny skies which unfortunately soon clouded over and shut out the sun altogether. After 65km we stopped at a bakery/cafe in Hunter River for lunch and when we came out of the restaurant TimB had a flat front tyre. This is the new tyre with an additional puncture proof belt put in between the tube and the tyre that we bought on Wednesday in St John. A small sharp stone had gone through the tyre at the side of the puncture proof belt. This guy has no luck. We fixed that problem and then set off with 24km to go to Charlottetown and within 200m it started raining. The light rain soon turned into something resembling a monsoon and we were having trouble seeing the road through our glasses. We made it to the Visitor Centre where we decided to toss in the towel for the day and stay in Charlottetown. It turned out that there is a festival on and the only room we could get was 8km back up the road we had just entered town on so off we go and, yes, it was still bucketing it down. New Glasgow and Nova Scotia will have to wait until tomorrow.