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Day 4
Bit of a rest day spent in and around St. Helens as I needed to pop in to the LBS to get the Wolverine shifting properly. The owner of the bike shop turned out to be a bit of a ledge, and rode a Soma track bike himself. When I'd dropped in the day before he was pretty surly (geddit), but on seeing my exquisite taste in steel bikes became a real chatty Cathy. Wish I'd taken a picture of it but the shop was called Break O' Day Cycles. After going back to pick the bike up I headed for Bay of Fires with my inadequate beach towel (one of those weird tiny sports towels that'll barely dry your junk), and some delicious corn triangles.
The road out was undulating with some pretty pinchy climbs by the sea, and there are tons of turn offs for camping areas. I'd been recommended Sloop Reef and that was the one I was sticking to. After about 25km's I turned off onto a fine white gravel road and rolled toward the coast.
Coast peeking through...
Found a nice little spot to enter the cove which is littered with huge granite rock, stained red by minerals in the Fuckingagesago period, and found a spot to sit down. For two of the four hours spent there I didn't see another person, which was amazing.
Starfish!
Laksa noodles for lunch, and spent some time re-wiring my Igaro D1 which I'd managed to break. Then for the ride back in a bit of a beach haze, drunk on tortilla chips. Sirloin steak for dinner, cuz I'm a classy bitch.