The weather gods are laughing at us! We think….ah let’s leave early and beat the rain! Hah! As soon as we get on our bikes, rain starts spitting at us. About five blocks away from the hotel, we have to stop and put our heavy rain gear on, and it stays on the whole ride. We look like drowned rats by Renesse and the gods are chuckling.
Cool part of the ride is going over the Eastern Schultz Storm Surge Barrier. There are two across the water in between the “half” islands we are traversing.
Murray is trying to turn me into a cyclocross rider. Part of our route today took us along a gravel/sand path filled with watery potholes. We zig, zag and bump along the path for about three kms. It isn’t too bad and we even have a close encounter with a young horse. The path leads us to within a kilometer of the Madison Bellefleur, the B&B we are staying at in Renesse.
Renesse is a beach town. Small local population that surges during the weekend and summer. Today is market day, so there are many folks in town to shop. We walk to the beach to see the seals that our host has told us about. Most of them are on a tiny sand bar off the coast. They are black specks out there. We spy one seal frolicking in the shallows.
We have been drying gear since we arrived. It is now 8:30 pm and most of it is dry, except our shoes and riding gloves. Our small room looks like a tornado went through it.
Tomorrow is supposed to be warmer, sunnier and rainless. The weather gods can torment someone else somewhere else.
