It was a sunny Friday and we asked ourselves where we'd like to go for a morning walk. Jay suggested Deer Lake because it is less than 7 kilometers from here. It felt like a familiar road because I used to travel Canada Way to get to the BCIT Burnaby campus for many years. However, we seldom need to go that route nowadays.
We'd walked at the park many times, but had never made the complete loop around the lake. The far end of what used to be part of the lake is now marshland. We didn't walk all the way to Willingdon, but just crossed around the end of the lake proper.
It was pleasant weather as the breeze was still cool in the wooded areas. Some folks, but definitely not hordes, were out on the trails. Now that we're retired we prefer discovering the great outdoors on weekdays as there are far fewer crowds.
Burnaby Lake is peaceful and seems, at times, miles away. However, the continued construction around Metrotown is merely a hop/skip as witnessed by the looming residential towers in the background of some photos.
Once we saw a coyote when walking at the lake. Today, however, we saw mainly birds. Our loop was only around four kilometers according to my Mi Band. So on the way home, we topped up our EV's battery to 80% at Queen's Park in our own city. We were plugged in only 16 minutes.
I am glad we walked where we did.
