Down On The Bayou

As follow-up to last week's "A Walk In The Park", this is the return leg of the journey.

Man, did I fall down a rabbit hole hole and wind up in a Louisiana swamp?

Although I'm sure you'll be hankering to order a mint julep, from the earlier post, you'll remember those little skyscrapers are always just over the horizon.

How many different rivers and streams run down through the middle of Toronto anyway?

And somebody has taken considerable time and effort to lay stone pathways for a lot of them.

And these are not always just lazy little streams. [Make note of the wooden crossing bridge.]

Yeah, I bet. That little creek?

Oh....

That's the other side of the bridge. The washed out side.

If they have to build a flood channel this size, I guess it can get pretty wild down here in the spring.

A beautiful, soaring Giant Hogweed tree.

Now they tell me!

Thanks a lot. I've probably got poisonous little spores that are busy burrowing into my body right now.

Tranquil wetlands. Being restored to create a natural marine habitat.

Well, you can't please everybody.

I am outta here!

No wonder north Toronto took so long to catch on. Horse & buggies always getting stuck in the dad gummed mud!

Now these types of towering spanbridges are all through the ravines. Massive work involved in building all these.

More painstakingly built collection and pooling areas.

But no matter how far away from the city you feel you are.....a little bit of graffiti will remind you that you're never that far....

These ravines extend right from the tippy top of Toronto, winding all through it down to Lake Ontario.

Seems now everyone I talk to has their favourite areas. "Oh yeah, we just go two blocks from our house and hop into the ravine. We can go for hours."

Who knew? Well, I guess everybody but me.....