Morning doesn’t break here. It’s morning from around 2am. It’s almost daylight. The sun’s out there somewhere!
At 4.30 it’s overcast and looks as if it’s going to stay that way.
Start archway and photos on the road
The course is 143kms for the day and it includes two track events, one that is a rally track, which means the surface is both gravel and seal surface, but we don’t know where one stops and the other starts. Interesting. The other is a gravel track.
We have to be shipped over to Estonia in the afternoon, a two hour crossing.
All in all should be a relatively restful day.
When we got to the first Rally track, which is the track with the two surfaces this experience was awesome. Denise just loved it. Swinging through the corners and spitting herself out with wheels spinning in the gravel and fishtailing out. Just like it was on the NZ roads way back when most of the roads in NZ were gravel. It was fun. Did a great time too, better than some of the better prepped up cars.
Then in quick succession another track , longer and more complex, had a stop midway, gravel, great stuff. Much more fun than the tracks we’ve been on over the past weeks.
It seems like there will be more of these henceforth, off-road race tracks. They are good and well controlled.
Then the crossing to Estonia. We were required to wait at the ferry terminal for two hours prior to sailing. I suppose it was to ensure that all the cars were set to sail and those that were behind could catch up.
Boring. Waiting.
Waiting at the ferry terminal parked next to a La France unit
The ferry was a very large ship, roll on roll off unit.
It had everything on board, including a Burger King and a supermarket, clothes and cosmetics, spirits and wines.
Restaurants. Just like a cruise ship I suppose.
A very smooth ride of over two hours over the gulf of Finland.
And off at the Estonia end to our hotel. It was after 7pm by then. Eat and sleep.
Nothing else exciting to report.
An extract from the ERA official site here…
gravel travel 