Featured Area: Stanley Park Optimist Natural Area to Kolb Park

Visiting this area of the Grand River for the first time is like being given the gift of sight. How could I have been living so close for so long, pining for a life closer to water without having gone there?  Where Victoria Street meets the Grand River, lies the Stanley Park Optimist Natural Area and Kolb Park. At Kolb park there are inland wetlands teaming with wildlife. We walked through bull rushes taller than us and peered across flat flood plains. There was also an Osprey spreading its wings on their nest and we think we saw a muskrat. It had a more slender tail than an otter. We saw turtles but we are not sure what kind they are. If anyone goes there and identifies or photographs wildlife, plants and insects, please let me know! I am only felting what we see and hear.