Dnes sme sa zobudili do riadne silného vetra, ale keďže nám konečne fúkal do chrbta, dnešný deň bol pre nás jedným z najlepších. Okolitou prériou sme doslova leteli, pred obedom sme mali už vyše 80 km. Krajina bola úchvatná, samá préria, kravy, v diaľke sa zelenali kopce Cypress Hills Interprovincial Parku, fascinujúce pre domácich lebo tam sú lesy. Popoludní a od mesta Maple Creek začala byť préria poriadne vyprahlá, ešte aj vodu na pumpe sme si museli kúpiť... Večer sme dorazili do Welshu a novej provincie - Alberta.
Day when we were faster than lightning :-) Whole day is strong east wind, very strong and it is pushing as forward so fast and biking is so easy today. Now I understood why all people bike from the west to the east, if they have wind like this every second day... Now we were in the best prairie which you can see from Hwy #1. Land was finally too dry for agriculture, so there were mostly pastures around us. Also a couple of lakes, a few really big, most of them salty. And the ocean of grass in every direction. Before the lunch we already had about 50 miles. On our left side we could see the Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park, quite curious here because they are covered by real pine woods. After Maple Creek we entered to the dry badlands with no water at all. Even at the gas station we had to bought it, one battle/one dollar. So the rest of afternoon we biked on nearly abandoned Hwy#1, ground squirrels looking at us next to the road, groundhogs burrows and many different species of grass everywhere, a few cows, hills, hawks soaring above us, coyote trying to catch a wild goose... Spirit of this place was still strong. After we passed thought small mountain range pass and enjoyed nice and long downhill we came to the flat lands again and to the new province - Alberta. Night we spent in front of closed visitor centre in Walsh, using their free internet.
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