{"id":78,"date":"2017-06-29T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/?p=78"},"modified":"2017-12-01T02:58:11","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T07:58:11","slug":"day-3-june-24-toronto-to-darlington-provincial-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/2017\/06\/29\/day-3-june-24-toronto-to-darlington-provincial-park\/","title":{"rendered":"(Day 3 – June 24) Toronto to Darlington Provincial Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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John made the three of us great omelets for breakfast and we sat and chatted. I was on the bike by about 11am.<\/p>\n

Bluffer’s Park is a real treasure and is not too far east from the Hunter’s. I ended up climbing part of the bluffs walking my bike just before the trail joined up with Brimley Road. It’s amazing that there is such a wild area on the edge of Toronto. \u00a0 Give credit to whoever decided to leave it that way.<\/p>\n

The Waterfront Trail between Toronto and Darlington was a mixture of roads and well maintained trails.<\/p>\n

Because it was Sunday the trails were especially busy with people strolling and bikers getting their long exercise of the week. \u00a0I kept my own with other cyclists and when I couldn’t I told myself that it was because of the extra weight on my bike.<\/p>\n

For lunch\u00a0I bought hot dog and fries \u00a0from a group of three boys about 12-14 who were tending a kiosk. \u00a0It wasn’t the healthiest lunch. \u00a0They were impressed that I had traveled so far… all the way from Kitchener and asked if I raced. Ha Ha — that is one way to make a 61 year old feel good.<\/p>\n

There are plenty of turns and tangential trails and I had to watch my GPS carefully. I missed a turn just as I was passing a cyclist. By the time I had discovered my error I was behind almost a kilometer.<\/p>\n

I arrived at Darlington PP around two. At the store I bumped into a fellow cyclist with a trailer traveling from Michigan to Vermont.<\/p>\n

It’s 4:32pm now and I have just set up my tent at \u00a0(see the picture). I can clearly see the lake from the camps site. Not bad. \u00a0 It couldn’t have been a better day. \u00a0Not too hot, not too cloudy and I had a great wind (north-by-north-west I think).<\/p>\n

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Harrison Estates Park at the end of Lakehurst Cresent south of Kingston Road.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Harrison Estates Park.<\/div><\/div>
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A view from the bluffs.<\/div><\/div>
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A view from the bluffs.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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An aggravation.<\/div><\/div>
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A view of the Pickering Nuclear Power station from Petticoat Creek Conservation Area trail.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Frenchman’s Bay looking south east from the north marshes.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Frenchman’s Bay.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Frenchman’s Bay looking toward Aunt Ida’s old cottage in the distance.<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Darlington PP in the late afternoon.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Darlington PP in the early morning.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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John made the three of us great omelets for breakfast and we sat and chatted. I was on the bike by about 11am. Bluffer’s Park is a real treasure and is not too far east from the Hunter’s. I ended up climbing part of the bluffs walking my bike just before the trail joined up … Continue reading (Day 3 – June 24) Toronto to Darlington Provincial Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.7hannahs.net\/wordpress\/aroundthelake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}