I saw a couple of students departing the lower Carleton Arb in their swimming suits on Tuesday night. I’m guessing they’d been at the beach adjacent to the start of the Ann Sipfle Memorial Ski Trail where Spring Creek empties into the Cannon River.
The beach sand there is soft, deep and plentiful, and it extends out into the river.
See the screenshot map of the spot, taken from the the full color Arb map.
People and creatures are headed for the river. A hapless painted turtle took the wrong turn into the Dundas PO parking lot Saturday and was rendered flat as a pancake by an incoming car.
Doesn’t anyone care?