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Stayed at a motel on Rock- side. Woke up at 8:00 to thick fog. We hurried to the trailhead at Rock- side to try to catch the fog. It It was 33 degrees. When we got to the trailhead, the fog seemed less dramatic. One thing we weren't prepared for was that this part of the trail was not paved like all of what we had hiked yesterday had been. The trail here is within the Cuyahoga Valley national Park. It is crushed limestone here, and was snow-covered. We spent about 30 minutes on the trail, then headed back to the motel, with a stop for coffee and light breakfast on the way.
I continued on the Tinker's Creek Road and turned around. We went back to the car and drove to the Tinker's Creek Aqueduct. Nowhere to park, so Kay just pulled over and I walked to a nice spot looking out on the creek. I spotted a Belted Kingfisher on the opposite bank, but didn't have along enough lens to do him justice.
Next stop was Frazee House. I just got out and snapped a shot of the structure and the grounds with their melting snow.
We then moved from Canal Road to Riverview Road. In the process we drove over the Route 82 Bridge. Driving across this majestic bridge is nothing like looking at from the ground up. We couldn't even tell we were on a bridge!
We spent about and hour and fifteen minutes at the Station Road Bridge Trailhead in Brecksville. In addition to the Route 82 Bridge, this site boasts the Station Road Bridge, a beautiful truss bridge which served Brecksville and Northfield before the construction of the Route 82 Bridge. Heading south, we stopped briefly at Boston Mills Road, where we saw some deer. Then we moved on to Peninsula and the Lock 29 Trailhead. A beautiful and busy place here. More people here than we have seen anywhere so far. Can't wait to come back here and spend more time.
Chilly and gray, heading south
Stopping and looking
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