Fishes and Things (What I did on my Holidays, Part 6)

By Friday, we'd covered most of our 'must see' things, so were doing more free range wandering.But since my feet had started to protect all the walking we'd been doing, we did it by tram/street car. (several of the routes have loops at the end, so we did a couple of round trips, which allowed us to see some of the bits of Toronto we hadn't yet walked to.

We started by going to St Lawrence Market, which is a food market but also has some  craft stalls. It would be a great place to shop if you lived locally, or were self catering, but other than the craft stalls, less relevant to us!

We did however then walk up towards Union Station, passing the flat iron building, which is quite nice looking.

On the end, it has a rather nice mural.

Just behind it, is an extremely strange, but entertaining, fountain. It wasn't yet running, so we didn't get to see it in it's full glory. It has a couple of dozen dogs (mostly, but not all, pugs), surmounted by a golden bone.

There's also a single cat, on the fountain, although we later spotted a second,  some distance away, as well as a pair of birds on a nearby lamp-post.

Then, a little later, we visited the aquarium, which (unsurprisingly) has lots of fish....

This includes some goofy-faced fishies, smiley rays, and sharks.

There were also lots of jellyfish, with extra-dramatic mood lighting to make them look even weirder than they naturally do

It was fun, but it was also very crowded.

We had a very nice meal that evening at Luma, then on the final morning, we did more walking - down to the lake side, where we found a menhir. And lots more boats.

We also visited the Distillery district, where old warehouses and (duh) distillery buildings have been re-purposed as shops and restaurants.

There is also a fair amount of public art. I was particularly taken by this Tripod!