Day 2 - Saturday - Sep 26 - Barry's Bay / Perth, ON

Day 2 (238KM) Saturday – 2015-09-26

Barry's Bay - Perth, ON

The temperature overnight dropped to +3c, so by morning the lake across for motel was in dense fog, but that made for a wonderful photo. (see below)

After breakfast and a not fast start we depart Barry's Bay at 9:30 and continue on Highway 60 East, but first a stop at the 1904 CN water tower in town - Barry's Bay which was the old CN Line through the Park to Deport Harbour near Perry Sound.

Ken's Bike at the Berry's Bay Water Tank.

After Barry's Bay our next stop was CFS Foymont, this was a Pinetree Line Radar site, the odd thing about this site is that it had 4 multi story apartment buildings for military staff, more than anything I have seen so far in visiting all the other 12 sites.  More research is required to solve this question.  But the base did close down in 1974 and since then a number of small businesses occupy the buildings including a manufacture of outdoor clothing called Black River.

CFS Foymont - old Apartment Building

CFS Foymont - old buildings on the base.

After CFS Foymont we are off to Eganville and the Bonnechere Caves, these caves are one of the best examples of a "Solution Cave" in North America, and well worth the stop of about an hour or so.  Here is the link: http://www.bonnecherecaves.com/

The cave has a few brown bats, but they won't bother anyone.  We spent about an hour underground exploring the caves with our trusting guide Kyle, who explained in detail all the features of this cave created about 450 million years ago by the Bonnechere River.  We also met another biker from Timmins enroute to Ottawa on his Harley to visit his daughter, he was impressed that Ben and I had explored so many of the Pinetree Line Radar sites.

After the caves we returned to Eaganville for lunch at the Granary, http://granaryrestaurant.ca/ we were two of the four patrons in the restaurant, but then again it was 2pm and we were a bit off schedule, not that we had a schedule to follow in the first place.

Bonnechere River

Bat in the Bonnechere Cave.

All of the above photos are taken inside the Bonnechere Caves.

After lunch we head for Perth via Renfrew, Calabogie and the 511 Highway, just another great day in the Highlands of Eastern Ontario.  I will not due to some map reading errors on my part, we enedup in Renfrew which was not on the route, Calabogie was.

Old Sawmill hear Calabogie on Hwy# 511

Highway 511 - sweeping curves make this road a must for bikers 

We arrive in Perth at 6:15pm, not bad for a day on the bikes, saw a lot today and could have spent even more time outthere.

We overnighted at the newly renovated Colonial House Motel  http://www.colonialhouse.ca/, but the real gem is Perth, this is a wonderful place, kind of like Niagara-on-the-Lake, lots of limestone buildings and beautiful architecture. 

We ventured out on the bikes for dinner down town at O'Reilly's Ale House http://oreillyspubperth.com/ which I would give 5 stars to, outstanding service and great pub food, and an energetic atmosphere.  Just a great town and place to eat.

Weather:
Sunny, no clouds, cool at the start but warned up to 20c by 1pm, still the temp drops by late afternoon to around 15c.