Today we started out from Sobey’s parking lot at the corner of Glendale Ave. and Mountain St. where we finished our last hike. The weather was beautiful and you couldn’t ask for a better day to be hiking through the woods. Unfortunately, we had to travel along Glendale Ave. and under the 406 Highway which was very noisy, but we were soon walking up a side street and into the peaceful woods. There we several unofficial side trails which, at times, made it difficult to find the actual trail, but after staring down each path we would eventually see the white blazes of the Bruce Trail.
Just before Brock University we went by the Glenridge Quarry Naturalization Site. We were too eager to keep hiking so we didn’t stop to look around, but it looks like a nice place to visit. For more information, check out: http://www.regional.niagara.on.ca/exploring/gqns/default.aspx.
As we passed the edge of Brock University on the North side, we came across this fire pit which they must use for some classes. Must be great to get a lesson while sitting around a camp fire.
Further along in the woods, there were several areas which had wild leeks growing. I’d only recently started eating wild leeks after finding them in a local farmer’s market. I didn’t take any that day, but it sure was tempting to harvest some for dinner.
The remainder of the hike to Lake Gibson was uneventful, but as we reached Decew Rd which was to be our stopping point for the day, there was a detour around the construction work on the bridge at Decew Rd. We decided to go a bit further along Merritville Hwy, and cross over this rusty bridge, which had very little room for hikers and cars. This worked out well, as there was a small parking area on the south side of the bridge which would make for a good starting point the following hike.
On our way back, we did see many butterfly’s around, but they are hard to capture on film without a decent telephoto lens, but I did manage to get a shot of this one.
