…as we did a hiking tour along the Scarborough Bluffs today. Getting from north Toronto to east Toronto took us two and a half hours – Toronto’s public transit is probably the most ridiculous one in the Global North -, so that we had to eat something before we could start hiking… But we finally made it to our destination.
The Scarborough Bluffs are towering 90 meters over the Lake Ontario and offer a “spectacular scenery”. That’s what my 1984 published hiking guide says. Yes, it is beautiful. But spectacular? I don’t know.
The only way to get down to the lake is along a busy road (of course without a sidewalk). If there’s a public transport connection to the lake in this area? Are you kidding?
Having arrived at the lakeshore, we looked up to the hills where we were walking before und were quite fascinated by the limestone cliffs we didn’t see from above.
Having such a “geological wonder” in your city, but don’t signing any hiking trails or erecting an information board seems a bit strange for us Europeans, that we love and promote every single piece of nature that we have. If Canadians want to hike in the nature, they obviously don’t drive to Scarborough, but to “real nature” somewhere out of the city… We were already satisfied with this piece of nature.
We ended up at a crazy dutch ice cream parlor near the St. Clair West subway station. Getting there took us again some waiting time... The funny ice cream was indeed a real dinner, I'm still not hungry...
Btw: everybody who left yesterday evening after the delicious (but too expensive...) dinner and the terrible legshaker beer at the "Prohibition" missed this Irish pub with this great Celtic Rock band.
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