Quick post

Quick post of 2 new parks.

 Hampton, ON. Near Bowmanville, this modular concrete parks biggest failure is the PIP base.

Malvern Community Center. An open, free, seasonal park just finished it's first season. It was packed and supplies boards and helmets for free.

Olaf dreams of Summer. Spott dreams of skateparks.

Hi Y'all! (the 3 people who read this blog)

Since the Halifax trip I feel like I've been laying pretty low but I haven't had a bad summer. I had to go back to work for a few days but earned my vacation.

On my birthday (July 18th) I found and hit one of Vaughans new skate spots.

Village Green Park. # 232.  A smaller modular concrete park with PIP base. Nice minis but it has a few issues.

The next morning I got up to ride a yet unopened skate spot in Markham.

What better way to turn 33 that to barge park 233. Nice little path style off the main walkway of a beautiful community park. The benches are reinforced as well.  

My Wife, Amy, and I went to Barry's Bay to visit a friend and she took me to the park on the Petawawa Military base.

#234. Most of the kickplates were unsecured and some were missing. 

Yesterday I went to Elora, ON with some friends to help them shoot some cliff jump shots.

We Found the Elora and Fergus parks while we were out there.

Apparently the rest of the Elora park is moved indoors in the summer.(that's what I gathered from the sk8/bmx drop-in sign) I can neither confirm or deny this. This quarter was totally usable and in good shape. 

 The Fergus park was loud with bent kickplates. The Mini had very uneven joints between the plates. But, it's park 236. 

More to come I hope.

Oh also,

Gonna have a little boy to skate with I hope. The Dr. says it's a boy. Would have loved a girl too.

East Coast Part 1.

East Coast Part 1.

A five day road trip in 2 easy parts. 

A little reminder of whats growing on my leg.

Day 1.

 4 am.

 Accidental trip towards Quebec City. Saving that for later.

 Who names these places?

Promises, promises.

 First Park of the trip. Dieppe, NB. 

Day 2

Out to Summerside, PEI.

Summerside, PEI. 2nd Park. 215 for the life list.

 Song Sparrow

River of Herons.

Confederation Bridge

 Back to the mainland and into NS.

 Amherst, NS.

 Truro, NS. Fell on the bad side on my first wall.

 Fall River, NS.

 The Commons Skatepark. Halifax, NS.

The info sheet at my hotel.

 Big and Little bowl at The Commons.

 Street Art. 1 of Trillions.

East Coast Dinner.

And how's the leg doing? Hmmm...bad!
Time for a soak in the hot tub.

Day 3

Some morning shots of The Commons.

Spryfeild, NS. Nice park that's a combonation of 2 Vaughan parks with 8th Street's bowl.

Down the Coast to more parks.

 Brand new park in Hubbards, NS.

 Chester, NS. Park 222. 9th park this trip.

 Waiting for the ferry.

 LaHave Bakery. Wonder what's in there?

More Costal stuff.

I grabbed lunch at the LaHave Bakery and saw this. Well...This is the real reason I came to LaHave.

 Homegrown Skateboards and their studio and shop on the 3rd floor of the building.

 They do everything on site from East Coast wood.

And they have a bowl!

 I bought some sweet decks and shirts and gave Jesse, the owner, some splatter art.

If you are ever in Nova Scotia you should check them out. In the meantime, check them out @ http://www.hgskate.ca/
WOW, just wow!

Back to Halifax for another soak in the hot tub.