August 30, 2022
Day 113 - Goderich to Kincardine
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We started today with a visit to the excellent Huron County Museum in Goderich. To get there, we rode through the town square - or actually, the town circle -which goes around the county courthouse.
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The Huron County Musuem is housed in the old public school, built in 1856 and used as a school for almost a hundred years.
The historical recreations portray life in Goderich in the late 19th century. One section has a Victorian apartment.
There was a large main street area with a wide variety of stores. Something we haven't often seen was a display of hearses and caskets. (My picture of the casket exhibit didn't turn out.)
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The original creator of the museum has this elevator built both for himself and for raising artifacts to the second floor. It looks like an early model of today's chair lifts.
There were several bicycles hanging from the ceiling, It was hard to get a photograph that showed them. Kerry found this one interesting.
In the children's hands-on area, Kerry found a toy he enjoyed playing with.
A second museum was at the Huron Historic Gaol. There wasn't really much to see there, but it was interesting to walk through.
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The jailer and his family had living quarters in the building.
It was after 12:00 by the time we finished our museum visits and got going on today's route. We decided to stop for lunch just five miles up the road at the Point Farm Market. They had a food truck, a big picnic area and a busy miniature golf course. We had delicious poutine and a good time talking with some of the other visitors. It was almost all vacationing family groups. I think we were the only ones there without kids.
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Is that Kerry's hand trying to get one?
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A few scenes from the road on the way to Kincardine
The last few miles, we rode near the Lake Huron shore. From this road, we only got glimpses of the lake between the houses.
Kerry decided we should go down to the lakefront road for better views.
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as a breakwater during storms to prevent street flooding? IT IS PRETTY NEAT THOUGH.
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We did get better views and, as a bonus, worked off some of our poutine calories by making the steep climb up from the lake a couple of extra times!
Today's ride: 38 miles (61 km)
Total: 3,635 miles (5,850 km)
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