Day 5, part 2

Kinmount history etc, 
plus a couple photos of the recent tornado devastation along the trail
Only since ... 1850
Wow. So recent.
The phone # of the fish and chips place in town ends with - 1850, in case you wanna order ahead.
Sad story of hardship and a lotta death among some economic immigrants from Iceland.
We biked on Monck Rd, the Victoria Railway path and the IB&O Railway path (among others) 
The tornado looks like it came down the hillside, across the river and onto the far shore
Many spots of the trail showed damage, and a lotta recent chainsaw work

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