Parks and Towers

Today is bright, sunny and clear, a good day for a walk in the park, to be more exact Rouge Park. It is apparently covers 47 square kilometers, we only plan to cover a few of them.

Now finding Rouge Park following Gertie's directions isn't too bad even if she does insist on taking us onto all the major routes. But finding the start of the trail is another thing, after several false starts we eventually find the right start point. The trail takes us up into the woods overlooking the Rouge River and along the bluffs. It circles a large meadow area - full of large pylons before returning to the start point. The walk is lovely lots of birds and butterflies around us and great views of the trees in all their glory. Dave of course has to take a couple of pictures of the pylons, he insists that National Grid's pylons are nicer! while I'm admiring the pretty colours!

Boardwalk on Balmy Beach

After all this walking we're hungry so we set off to find a beach without Gertie's help and pretty well we do too... The beach is narrow strewn with large chunks of drift wood on the silver sand and best of all totally deserted except for a few gulls hoping for some tit bits, they're out of luck!! It's hard to imagine we're actually on a lake as the water is so vast we can't see the other side. After this we slowly drive down the coast err.. should I say lakeside calling in at various beaches ending up on Balmy Beach for an iced coffee. Dave loves this beach it may have something to do with the skimpily clad female beach volleyball players not just my company as we stroll down the boardwalk hand in hand. The houses leading away from the beach up to East Queens are beautiful, it's a tree lined street with large houses with balconies, this is a beautiful area.

This evening we're going to have an evening meal in the CN Tower, so suitably scrubbed we set off on the tram for central Toronto. We get to the Tower in plenty time and get sent to the bar to wait for our table, we're on edge as we're hoping for a table next to the window ; we're not disappointed. The view from the window is amazing and the sun is just setting as we sit down. The meal is equally good, we take so long over eating and enjoying the view that we do two whole revolutions in the restaurant before we finish! We finish the evening with trips to the observation and look out floors plus experiencing the glass floor.

Feeling elated after we leave the tower we set off for Dundas Square, pity we're going the wrong way! Eventually we find it and instead of it being crowded with people it is totally deserted! But the lights are good......