Beaver Tails Nordic Ski Club

Rain showers in the forecast, plus winds, bridge closures and road work cones rather put a damper on our plan to go to St Hilaire so we went to plan “B”, a walk around Cap St Jacques just for the exercise. So it came to pass that a fine group of walkers gathered at Cap St Jacques, indeed a fine group with a selection of off island people turning up. These included a lost soul from St Lambert trying to work out where he had left his bike, a club less golfer from L’ile Bizard and a resident from Ile Perrot who had managed to sort out a way onto the island. A grand total of 11.
Not a lot to decide where to go, just pick up the Rabbit by the ears and away we went We managed to keep  up a steady pace and given that we were sheltered from the wind and it wasn’t raining our morale was high reaching the farm in good time. Concern was expressed in the group about discrimination on the farm with white and non white chickens being segregated, however no one seemed inclined to start a protest. Our thoughts of an early coffee started to disappear as the weather improved and we ventured onto the squirrel. Again progress was good, passing a few beaches but now catching the wind, until we found ourselves trapped in a pen at Havre aux tortues, for a moment it felt that we were going to be deported off the island however the misunderstanding was cleared up, or so I am told and we were free to go. Now with a sense of urgency in our step we knocked off the last few kilometers back to the cars and at last a coffee at Tims.