Our first stop was Fair Haven State Park where we got a
campsite on Sterling Pond. Gail did
freshwater research here some 15-20 years ago and was looking forward to
revisiting old stomping grounds. Nice
park with views of some sandstone bluffs; I recommend it.
Another destination along this part of Lake Ontario was
Chimney Bluffs State Park, a place neither of us had been to but wanted to
see. Since they didn’t have camping we
went to Fair Haven with a full day to ride to Chimney Bluffs, a short ride
without gear that we were considering a “day off,” except that was one ride I
hadn’t checked the actual mileage of and it turned out to be 22 miles. By the time our day off was done we’d ridden
over 50 miles. The bluffs are really
cool and we witnessed quite a display of flying by some Kestrels playing King of the Mountain.
Along the ride we
saw apple orchards with manicured trees heavily laden with fruit. We stopped at a farm for water and talked a bit
with the farmer who responded to my comment that it might be a good year to
come out of retirement from my apple picking career at Cornell that the
equipment we were looking at carried a moving team of six pickers who drop the
apples on a conveyor belt that dumps them into the bins. “Not like the way you did it at Cornell
Orchards,” he said.
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