Ride Pics 26Sept-1Oct Dialup Users Beware

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Here are some pics from the trip up north... I didnt reach my goal of NFD which is ok, since Hurricane Juan decided to come visit while I was there...

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Did you ever get a bad feeling on a boat?...LOL I was wedged between a HUGE bus and a motorhome... actually thank god because the ride was rough and every other vehicle got drenched... I also took the time to realize the previous guy didnt have the rear suspension set up for heavy weight...grrrrr

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All you quad riders take notice...THIS is a real ATV

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After having to make the tough decision on not making it to NFD I decided to start my trip up to Prince Edward Island... which took me into my first "REAL" rainstorm... this was a quick stop to put the rain cover on my tank bag...

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Once I got close to PEI I found the Confederation Bridge which is real long...real high... did I mention I was on a bike? My hands were a little tired from fighting 1000lbs worth of bike rider and gear in 30+mph winds after the 12+km long bridge

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I was thinking about taking some pics of the devistation on the island... :( but I decided against it... it was really kinda sad to see all the shit that happened... keep in mind this was a catagory 2 hurricane which had 145kmph sustained winds... about 85-90mph... there were trees littered everywhere...if you could picture what a tornado does...then make it 10 miles wide...

SO instead I passed thru the bad areas... and made it out to the southeast coast quickly where this was the first ferry to make it back to the island from Nova Scotia

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Kinda kick ass....

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This is how quickly a storm comes through... I was standing at the northeastern coast tip... and watched this come through...note the color of the water on both sides...it was gone as fast as it showed up...

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Here is one for the lighthouse buffs...

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Another of the NE coast line... here is the "pointbreak" of the island...thats why the waves get so huge coming around...

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I stayed over the night back on the mainland and watching the weather decided I would make the trip home on the southern coast of New Brunswick and come back before heading back up north to camp...

There was an exit that said they had food... well after 10 miles of driving... no damn food... but got a couple kewl pics... the water line on the rocks is where it is high tide......there is like 18-20 foot difference between the tides....

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Which leads to the last pic I am posting... which is what happens when you do a bad parking job with a boat...

No seriously here is another picture of what happens at low tide...

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Here is why it is good to have a good plan while traveling this time of year...LOL

• Friday, Sept. 26 - Hurricane Juan forms deep in the Atlantic, the fifth hurricane of the Atlantic season. The center of the storm passes well to the east of Bermuda and all tropical storm warnings are dropped for the island. Juan has sustained winds of 80 mph, just above the threshold for a hurricane and is centered about 190 miles east-northeast of Bermuda at 11 p.m. EDT. It is moving north at near 8 mph.

• Saturday, Sept. 27 - Juan becomes a Category 2 hurricane as it inches closer to Nova Scotia. Canadian officials issue rain and wind warnings for Nova Scotia and hurricane-force wind warnings for the waters surrounding the province. At 11 p.m. EDT, Juan has maximum sustained winds of 105 mph, about 20 mph faster than it was earlier in the day. It is centered about 525 miles south of Halifax, Nova Scotia, moving north-northeast at near 9 mph.

• Sunday, Sept. 28 - Juan lashes Nova Scotia with 86 mph winds, ripping off roofs, uprooting trees, knocking out power and killing at least two people before weakening to a tropical storm and heading north to Prince Edward Island. The swirling storm system, measuring about 175 miles wide, has winds of 80 mph. At 11 p.m. EDT, Juan is about 30 miles southwest of Halifax and moving north at near 32 mph.

• Monday, Sept. 29 - The downgraded remnants of Hurricane Juan knock out power and sink boats at a yacht club while blowing across Prince Edward Island before heading out to sea and quickly losing steam. The storm weakens to a tropical depression and is headed out to sea, where it is expected to dissipate. Provincial elections go ahead as scheduled. Voters negotiate downed power lines and trees to get to ballot stations while Premier Pat Binns votes near his home in Murray River by a single light powered by a generator. More than 100,000 people in Nova Scotia are without power and many say the storm was more powerful than any they could remember. Three people, including an ambulance driver, are confirmed dead after trees hit their vehicles. Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia and the largest city on Canada's east coast, is hit the hardest. In its downtown, boulders the size of garbage cans are hurled from the water's edge like pebbles. Dead or dying seagulls litter walkways. Army troops join dazed residents in the water-logged, tree-littered streets for the clean-up. Tropical storms routinely soak Atlantic Canada each summer and autumn but a full-fledged hurricane making landfall is rare.