Motorcycle Adventures

Nelson 2009 – Day 7

Today was another unplanned day.

Nicole made us her famous finnish style pancakes in the morning.  Yum!

It was getting warm again, so Nicole and I decided we would see if we could find the beach. As we made our way down to the water, we were talking about how to walk to the park when the historic tram that serves the area stopped and asked if we wanted to get on.  It was a wonderful little ride.  The tram is a restored tram that is over 100 years old.  Years ago Nelson was served by several tram lines.  Although this tram didn’t originally come from Nelson, it was great to be on a piece of history.  The tram drivers were two old men.  They were the perfect tram drivers, stopping for everyone they saw trying to convince them to get on the tram for a ride.

The park turned out to be beautiful.  Lakeside Park was full of wonderful old trees, park benches, a little seawall, a concession stand that even carries organic choices, and a wonderful beach.

We cooled off our feet in the water and helped a fellow have his truck towed out of the water (he went in too deep and couldn’t get back out after dropping his boat off).  We played frisbee on the beach, and the in the park.  Nicole even found dairy-free ice cream at the concession stand!  I love Nelson!

We took the tram back and then went for a walk up to Gyro park.

This park overlooks Nelson and has a couple nice viewpoint.  We relaxed and read in the park, before going for a very pleasant dinner at a vegetarian restaurant in town.

After dinner we wanted to see if we could still find a way to go for a swim.  We had forgotten our bathing suites earlier in the day, so off we went back to Lakeside Park. It turned out to be just a little bit too late.  It was too cool by the time we got back to the park.  We enjoyed sitting on the beach anyway and going for another walk.

For me it was another completely barefoot day.  Wonderful.