{"id":113,"date":"2017-06-29T02:55:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T02:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/?p=113"},"modified":"2017-07-18T20:05:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:05:42","slug":"day-5-june-26-sandbanks-to-kingston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/2017\/06\/29\/day-5-june-26-sandbanks-to-kingston\/","title":{"rendered":"(Day 5 – June 26) Sandbanks to Kingston"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because it was only supposed to be 74km to Kingston I had intended to stay and enjoy the beach until about 11am. \u00a0 When I woke however the weather was cold and overcast. Instead of soaking up the sun I decided to take a tour of the park and see the dunes. As luck would have it the roads on th far west side of the park where the dunes were was flooded. \u00a0 So I returned to have my breakfast at the camp restaurant and packed up.<\/p>\n

The Waterfront Trail was inconsistent. \u00a0 \u00a0Sometime it followed roads and sometimes trails but it was not as nice as the trail system from Hamilton to Darlington.<\/p>\n

I couldn’t find a host with Warmshowers so I decided to camp at the Rideau Canal. \u00a0Because I was not familiar with the route I interrupted a girl listening to her mp3 and asked where the Rideau Canal in Kingston was. \u00a0 Unfortunately she had no idea what I was taking about.<\/p>\n

On my way through Kingston I passed by the same old locomotive we saw on a family outing about 15 years ago.<\/p>\n

Before long I had arrived in downtown\u00a0Kingston standing by a Holiday Inn, 200 meters from the Wolfe Island Ferry, still not knowing where the Rideau Canal Locks was.\u00a0\u200e \u00a0I was really tempted to get out my wallet and stay the night. \u00a0But after mulling things over, remembering how much I hated hotels, and how much I liked the canal, I decided to reject the easy, comfortable and convenient \u200eplace to stay and set off to the find the canal. \u00a0It was a 5 km ride north. \u00a0If I wanted to be comfortable I would have stayed at home.<\/p>\n

The canal is part of the Canada Park system. \u00a0 The cost of setting up a tent for the night for cyclists, which includes access to a washroom, is $4.90.<\/p>\n

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The flooded road at Sandbanks PP near the dunes.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The flooded road at Sandbanks PP near the dunes.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Walkway on the shores of Lake on the Mountain.<\/div><\/div>
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Walkway on the shores of Lake on the Mountain.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The shores of Lake on the Mountain.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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The ferry from Prince Edward County.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Stopping for the ferry from Prince Edward County.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Heritage Martello Tower – Murney<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Heritage Martello Tower – Murney<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Locomotive at Kingston.<\/div><\/div>
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The Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills.<\/div><\/div>
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The Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Tent camping Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Locks on the Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n
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  Because it was only supposed to be 74km to Kingston I had intended to stay and enjoy the beach until about 11am. \u00a0 When I woke however the weather was cold and overcast. Instead of soaking up the sun I decided to take a tour of the park and see the dunes. As luck … Continue reading (Day 5 – June 26) Sandbanks to Kingston<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}