Now, Hamilton has some really lovely areas, which I have shown in abundance. Hamilton also has some incredibly grim areas. It has been and continues to be a heavy industrial town. Two massive steel plants and a bunch of other not so nice to look at industries. It’s all concentrated along the waterfront out in the east end. The Windermere Basin had the dubious distinction (I believe it still may) as the, or one of the most polluted spots in Canada. Valiant efforts have been made to clean it up, but a century + of dumping filth into the harbour is going to have a negative effect. (I knew a guy years ago who was a diver and he said that the area in front of Dofasco and Stelco had a layer of black, gooey, tarry sludge many meters deep and stretching many meters out into the harbour.)
After crossing the city, and a stop at Princess Auto (where I had never been either), I cut down the Red Hill Valley Trail towards the lake.
Debated whether I should walk to Burlington, even debated whether I should walk the Around the Bay Race route (which I will do one of these days), but decided I didn’t really have the time, and it was getting dark. Part of doing these little jaunts is to take photos. Might get up really early one morning and do this again.
Walking up Woodward Avenue, I came out from under an overpass and saw this scene. Looked more stunning in real life though. Really need to get a better camera.
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