Wednesday July 1 Happy Birthday Canada

Slept like a log until 7:00 am and left ~8:30. Rode north to Balfour and caught the ferry with only enough time to get a coffee and muffin from a true Nelsonite who travelled all over the world but keeps coming back. Two other cyclist on the small ferry (a new larger one also running opposite this one). Both with BOB trailers heading out to their cottages for a few days. I think I figured it out a while later. One was legally blind so he couldn't drive but he could some how ride a bike back to Calgary!! Beautiful ride south along Kootenay Lake from the ferry to Creston on yet another cloudless day. Stopped at a beach that said no overnight camping but I sure was tempted to stay. Lots of people there but decided I should push on to Creston. Stayed at a private campground near the town centre which is feeling the effects of the economy shall we say. Spent most of the evening drinking with a fellow that lives in town with his wife but came out here to camp. Stopped at the park/ bandshell for Canada Day celebrations but it wasn't riveting shall we say.

OD 799.5km, 5:44:43, 119.33 km, 20.7 ave, 59.8 max