What we didn't expect is that the wild rice filled bay is home to Great White Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Mute Swans and unidentified birds that we can hear in the bushes but cannot see. It is wonderful to take a leisure walk down to the small dock and always see something interesting (to us anyway).
We plan to take some chairs and our books and sit on the dock to read. It is very peaceful and breezy. Very nice spot and there is never anyone else there.
Our other discovery is North Beach Provincial Park which is exactly 3 minutes from our place by car. We only take the car when we take the dog with us but otherwise we bike there and it takes us anywhere from 12 to 15 minutes. What a nice long beach! It is always windy there so the waves are quite large which makes the lake (Ontario) really look like the ocean. The water is very clear and it is a sandy bottom. You can walk out for quite a distance and it is still shallow which makes me brave to go play in the waves. The park closed after Labor Day weekend but people park on the road and walk in. I truly feel like I am on vacation somewhere tropical there. We have gone several times with the intention to read but the sound of the waves and the wind is so distracting that we both end up just sitting there and looking at the ever changing water.
We have seen quite a few birds there also. Glen photographed the cutest little sandpipers while I was making sure Cheeka was staying close to me so she wouldn't disturb them. Those long-legged little birds looked like they were doing a dance with the waves. In and out. Forward and back. Their little feet going very fast to catch the wave and then to run from it.
There is also the beach cleaning crew. Turkey vultures are always on the lookout for dead fish being washed ashore. Then they can appear in great numbers to clean up the carcass. After a while nothing is left. We saw them around a dead Cormorant the other day. When we went back he was gone.
Poor Cheeka didn't know what to think of these big birds! She would go bravely towards them then stop and turn to us with a questioning look: Should I chase them? Should I keep going forward? She played it safe and remained a good distance away.
The downturn to Bay Meadows? NO TV! Not one single channel! We bought some DVDs on sale at Walmart the other day and were so excited to watch something on TV! But now I have discovered that I can watch Netflix on the laptop. It doesn't work on any other devices but there. If we hook up the laptop to the TV we see the image but can't hear the sound through the TV only coming faintly through the laptop. We're not really good at figuring this out so we'll buy a speaker so we can watch Netflix on the TV. So excited! It's amazing how little things can make one so happy when before those things were taken for granted.
It seems that since we took the leap towards to more affordable living, good things are happening. Like we needed to do this to find ourselves again and love again. The stress generated by financial woes can really destroy a relationship. Also being free to do as we please with no real obligations is so liberating! This is the second time in my life that I feel the universe was waiting for me to make the first step. The other time was when I left my first husband. It just goes to say that nothing can happen unless YOU take the first step or leap into the unknown.
It's a good life after all.
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