Friday, May 17, Earthquake! Day 6

It was very chilly last night! The furnace & heater were working hard to keep up to the -1C temp!

After morning rounds and breakfast, we experienced an earthquake! The TV was bouncing, as was the whole trailer. At first, we didn’t know what it was, until we heard on the radio that it was an earthquake. Apparently 5.3 on the Richter scale. According to Earthquakes Canada's website there were two automatic detections of a seismic event in Eastern Canada.

The first seismic event took place at 9:43 a.m. about 18-kilometres Northeast of Shawville, Quebec. The magnitude was 5.2 on the Richter Scale. The aftershock came 10 minutes later.

Earthquakes Canada reported a second seismic event with a magnitude of 4.1 at 9:53 a.m. The quake lasted between 10 to 40 seconds.

Once that was over, we set off on our bikes to ride the Old Railway Bike Trail from Mew Lake to Pog Lake, a 6 km ride. However, we ended up riding 5 km before starting on the trail over to Lake of Two Rivers and back before finding the trail!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The Old Railway Trail follows the old Ottawa, Arnprior and Parry Sound Railway for 16 km between Cache Lake and Rock Lake.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The trail can be accessed by crossing this old airfield which was constructed from 1934 to 1936 during the Great Depression as an emergency landing strip. It was closed to planes in 1973.

 

 

 

 

 It was a pleasant ride, fairly flat and alongside  the lake, with a few boggy spots.

 We reached the dam on the Madawaska River, found the Pog Lake Comfort Station (flush toilets) and started back on the trail. By the time we got back to the campground, we had ridden 18.62km. Saddle sore! After a cool night, the temp went up to a sunny 20C (68F)

 

Once again, we made it back in time for out 2:00 rounds. There were a few more occupied sites, but not as many as expected. I’m sure there will be a big influx this evening! So far, we have averaged 30 sites occupied per day out of 131 available sites.