Day 5. Beautiful Kinmount

Beautiful hanging baskets of flowers all over town.

we could resist collecting a few rail spikes from the trail.

A monument, mother and child, to a very sad story of the Icelandic settlers' hardship.

The thunderbird and kinmount house bnb.

This morning's traffic caused a slight delay.

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