Another fine day.

A great start to the day with a lovely breakfast. The lady spoke to us in English with an Irish accent. Turns out she is Polish but lived in Dublin for 9 years.

She gave us wrap to make some rolls to take with us today. Super nice of her.

We headed off via a paved pathway through forest, running parallel with the beach.

Again we would follow EuroVelo 10/13 for most of the day.

The village of Wytowno put old bikes to use plus an information board with local history.

Towns and villages all have similar signs. The lower sign was also used in Germany.

In Rowy wooden carved statues appear every hundred metres or so.

The Slowinski National Park is another Baltic coast park. It was formed in the late 1960’s to protect the area known for its large, shifting sand dunes. The dunes are encroaching at up to 10 metres per year.

The three lakes were once bays off the Baltic. Forests have been swallowed as has a village!

Sand dunes and touring bikes don’t play together well. Horse riding and trekking are the recommended ways of seeing the dunes.

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Meantime, we’re in the forest section. Someone made themselves busy with this pile of rocks.

The trails varied. These are good sections. we did have some very pot holed sections and far too many km of mislaid, multi angled concrete slabs that were jarring.

We did around 45 km today off road.

Another village, more wood carvings.

Little lakes surrounded by peat bog marshes.

We had lunch on a bench seat to the left of this sign. I was having very light food due to an upset stomach. Too many different foods perhaps.

This is where we deviated from EuroVelo for the rest of today’s ride. It went through more unpaved forest and given my tummy and Tony’s sore neck we opted for the busier, sealed arterial road.

We do love to the storks nests. In this village we counted five. In the second image you can see the nest is formed on a man made ring provided for this purpose.

The nests are incredible structures. So high up.

The last 10 km featured a nice sealed and separated bike path. The headwind made it tougher, but nice to be on a path.

Leba was the last town in today’s ride, another busy tourist town, with the wind biting hard.

After World War II, Leba was occupied by the Red Army. Eventually after the Potsdam Conference, unit was returned to Poland.

Leba was where the defence prime Rheinmetall tested long range weapons back in the 1940’s. Up until 1973, Meteor sounding rockets were also launched.

A beautiful white beach. Not sure if the dredging equipment is for the river channel or do they move sand around?

Tonight’s accomodation is an old 14th century castle in Nowacin, on the shores of lake Sarbsko. Our bikes are well secured in a stone outbuilding.

At the entrance is this dude. There is small change on the tray.

After dinner we wandered to the lake. Hire boats were available.

84 km today. We still have three full days riding left in Poland.

One thing impressing us is the amount of green forest that is preserved, and just how many people are out and about enjoying the forests and parks. In wet weather, they are still out and an out, just with appropriate clothing.

Todays route.

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