{"id":455,"date":"2003-09-04T10:02:03","date_gmt":"2003-09-04T16:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2003\/09\/04\/toronto-islands-park\/"},"modified":"2003-09-04T10:02:03","modified_gmt":"2003-09-04T16:02:03","slug":"toronto-islands-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/archives\/2003\/09\/04\/toronto-islands-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Islands Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On our last full day in Toronto, we went to the “Toronto Islands”:http:\/\/www.city.toronto.on.ca\/parks\/island\/index.htm, a short ferry ride from a quay that was a short walk from our hotel.
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\nThe park on the Toronto Islands is almost magical: immaculately clean despite the heavy use that it gets, and beautifully landscaped. Jack and I took many photos, and revelled in the picture perfect postcard greens and blues of a gorgeous late-summer day.<\/p>\n

They had reasonably cheap bikes for rent, so I took my first real bike ride in over 25 years. The pink clunker that I rented was a good choice for a reintroductory ride, since it had neither gearing nor hand-brakes to confuse the issue. The island had no serious grades which required gearing. The coaster brakes on the bikes barely worked, but we kept to a sedate pace on the nearly empty paths, and had no difficulty. My starts became less wobbly after the first half hour or so, and I was surprised how intensely I enjoyed biking.<\/p>\n

One highlight of the day was when we saw a bicyclist with a pack of teacup pomeranians following him. These dogs, clipped in a variety of punk hairstyles didn’t seem to realize that they were the size of a large kitten. One chased a goose while we watched and ran back proudly to the bicyclist after successfully vanquishing his foe. It was hilarious. As the bicyclist pulled away from us, I saw that he had even more pomeranians in the basket of his bike.<\/p>\n

The islands, originally sandbanks, wrap around narrow lagoons and channels, linked by many bridges. We saw flower beds, marinas, cottages, a small amusement park, a concert venue, several restaurants, many sandy beaches (including the clothing optional one), and a children’s nature center. As Jack said, if I lived in Toronto, I would try to get there at least once a month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On our last full day in Toronto, we went to the “Toronto Islands”:http:\/\/www.city.toronto.on.ca\/parks\/island\/index.htm, a short ferry ride from a quay that was a short walk from our hotel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Npw-7l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stardel.com\/fiveacres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}