Harrison Park Lunch

Last Friday we enjoyed another lunch at the Harrison Park restaurant, and took a few minutes for a ride/walk down the trail.  Another beautiful day here in Grey County.

We're getting ever more familiar with this place.  We now know to go in the back door even though the front door is "wheelchair accessible".  We literally bumped into the manager as we entered, so we explained our frustrations to her - even though the back door works perfectly well for us.

 We ate by the big stone fireplace under the watchful eye of the 'chef'.

 Do you think I qualify as a pedestrian?

There's a narrow diversion channel bringing a stream from the river to create a shallow manicured channel past the playground.  I remember playing in the water here as a very young toddler.

These folks in two rented canoes looked like they were fairly inexperienced, bumping into each other.  They have planted a lot of trees in memory of people, marked with small plaques.

Alternatively you could rent a small paddleboat and go for a ride.  My mother and I did this when I was about 10, and ended up securely stuck on an old deadhead just below the water's surface, half a mile downstream.  We had to be rescued.

I wasn't impressed with the resident Canada Goose families though.  You have to be careful where you drive.

I was hoping we'd see salmon swimming up the river, but no luck, even though the big Salmon Derby was this weekend.  The salmon are all still out in the bay and won't appear here for 3 or 4 weeks yet.

Here's a nice big one we saw last year.

Quiz

The last picture in yesterday's post is the dorm at St. Andrews University where William and Kate met.  Remember our trip was in 2011, just a year after their wedding.