It was a good ride today. A little cool, but I had a quartering tailwind all day which was great and made for easy riding. The further west I go, the sparser the traffic, which is nice, but that means the fewer the services as well.
It was for that reason I routed up to Boissevain - I didn't feel like riding 40-miles with absolutely no services. I'm glad I made that choice because while MB-3 had very little traffic, when I turned onto MB-346, it literally became non-existent. Given the lack of traffic on 346 and 443, I was pleasantly surprised how good the road surface was. While not new, there were very few cracks, and it was a very smooth ride.
The stretch between Ninga and Boissevain is littered with small ponds and marshes which provided for a nice change in scenery. This area is also home to large flocks of waterfowl and is a popular hunting destination. Almost every pond I passed had ducks or geese in them, but other than the Canada geese, I could not identify any others.
I have no idea what these blue huts are, but there were a lot of them in a brushy-looking field. UPDATE: I just looked it up and these are shelters for Alfalfa Leaf-Cutter Bees in an apparent lowbush blueberry field.
