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Ride 15 - The Ridelet

Ride 15 - 21 May 2019
Distance 5.8 miles (Distance to date 233.4 miles)
Time 0:42 (Time to date 28:42)

 It was a beautiful Tuesday night.  My son was put to bed and I had a niggle, that I'd not ridden Blenkinsop to complete the area west of Mt Doug!



 To fix that niggle, I headed out for a ridelet.  Like a ride, just much smaller.
The sea view passing through Mt Doug

Blenkinsop is a beautiful area, a very farmy area right on the outskirts.  Farms give good area / miles ratios!
You can almost smell the high ratio
Points of Interest.....

 Putting Green (48.503001, -123.355453)

 Many No Exit streets have turning circles with a little traffic island.  But this one is the first one I have come across with a PUTTING GREEN included!  I would have stopped for a round, but I got some very unwelcome attention for taking pictures.
Great risks were taken to bring you this photo!

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