SkyWatch Friday ~ Blue Glorious Blue

The Toronto skyline from the Toronto Islands

Southwest Ontario and Toronto specifically has been the hot spot in Canada this week with blue skies and temperatures in the high teens.

Knowing that snow could still fall(it is still winter!)

Looking west along the Scarborough Bluffs

a daily hike has been on the agenda this week.

The trees are beginning to loose their starkness

and the ice has left the lake

Looking west from the Toronto Islands

and the dirty sky of industry creeps along the horizon

Guildwood Inn gates

but it is wonderful to feel the warmth of the sun.

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Watery Wednesday #79 ~ Way to nice to be in blogging...

Yesterday on the Toronto Islands

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SkyWatch Friday ~ "Nothing but blue skies do I see..."

Waiting...

Oops!

The Eagle and the Dove

Memories....

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Watery Wednesday #73 ~ Along the boardwalk

Ward's Island Ferry Dock
When my time in the "big" city starts to overwhelm me I head out to walk on the Toronto Islands.
Disembarking ferry with Toronto skyline shrinking away!

A beautiful collection of natural and man made islands that can calm the weary soul by taking a 15 minute ferry ride at the foot of Toronto's financial district.
The island side of the The Eastern Gap

The Boardwalk on the southside of the Islands

Created as a result of winds carving out sands from the Scarborough Bluffs and lake currents carrying the sands west the islands were originally an isthmus running from the Don River to the foot of Bathurst Street in Old Fort York also known as Toronto!

The waves were the residual from the winter storm that hit the eastern USA over the weekend.

Known as a place of peace and healing and good fishing by the Mississauga First Nations the land was taken over as a recreational area by the first Europeans to settle Upper Canada.
Hmmm...reminders of home!
After wave action from a huge storm in 1864 opened up what is now known as the Eastern Gap the "Islands" were formed.

My intent was to write about some of the history and geography of these islands however there is way too much for one post so here is a taste of a walk along the southern boardwalk on a sunny winter day while I do some more research! Enjoy!

Centre Island Pier

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