A small child peers out from inside the glass eye of a giant snowy owl sculpture in Biidasige Park in Toronto.

Photo of the mouth of the Don River, as it passes until the yellow-and-white Cherry Street Bridge. On either bank are green native plants. A couple of locals are paddling a canoe upstream. In the background is Lake Ontario and downtown Toronto. It is a beautiful sunny day.

Photo of a red-tailed hawk perched on a box mounted on a post rising out of the wetlands in Biidasige Park.

Today we rode our bikes down to Biidasige Park, Toronto's newly reclaimed park at the (reconstructed) mouth of the Don River. We thought we'd just pop in and check it out, but we ended up spending several hours there, walking the paths and watching people kayak […]

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A tan lab mix in a yellow lifejacket sits on the bow of a blue and yellow paddleboard. She watches two adult swans and three fluffy grey swanlings (?) swim among algae near the opposite river bank.

We passed the swan family and got hissed at, but Billie just watched quietly.

#BiidaasigePark #OokweminMinising

In the foreground, a lab mix in a yellow life jacket stands on the bow of a blue and white paddleboard on a river. Ahead of her: a raised section of highway (where the Gardiner Expressway meets the Don Valley Parkway), and a bunch of tall condo buildings.

It is decidedly weird to paddle toward the Gardiner Expressway...

#BiidaasigePark #OokweminMinising

Biidaasige Park on Ookwemin Minising island is phenomenal. A gem in the city. Something Toronto should be proud of & quite the feat along with renaturalizing the mouth of the Don River to manage flooding. Congratulations to everyone involved with the new Port Lands! #BiidaasigePark #OokweminMinising