Labour Day evening bike ride along Ajax and Pickering shore of Lake Ontario

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A view of Toronto downtown and CN Tower, occluded by a hill, from Paradise Beach in Ajax, ON.

Since the weath­er start­ed turn­ing warm in May, Lily has expressed inter­est in rid­ing our bikes east from Scar­bor­ough along the Great Lakes Water­front Trail. Her desire esca­lat­ed after splurg­ing on a ped­al-assist e‑bike in ear­ly July. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the south­ern por­tion of Rouge Park, through which the Water­front Trail pass­es and whose bridge it cross­es … Read more

Beach Day at the Island via Canoe

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Wide photo of a colony of hundreds of double-crested cormorants on Centre Island in Toronto.

Yes­ter­day, Lily and I took our canoe out on its first voy­age of 2026. Yep, late in the sea­son. We made the one-and-a-half-hour pad­dle from our pre­ferred spot just east of Cher­ry Beach, by the Toron­to Wind­surf­ing Club, to the south­ern part of The Moor­ing Wall near Han­lan’s Point. The light on the way there … Read more