Both Danica and I are pretty green as bike riders, but I’ve been out for a few more rides. Today, she rode for more than two and a half hours… much more than I did on my early rides.
The Spit is a manufactured headland that juts out into Lake Ontario, about a 20 minute ride from our place. What a gift! It’s all natural vegetation, not park landscaping and it’s full of butterflies and snakes and crickets and critters. Birdwatchers with binoculars were out today, as were joggers, hikers and other cyclists, but it wasn’t crowded at all.
The Spit is open to the public on weekends and holidays, but is used by construction trucks during the week because the process of extending the headland is still happening. Loads and loads of clean fill are added constantly.
And here’s a surprise… even on weekdays, the public can use the Spit after 4:30 p.m., when the trucks go home for the day.