{"id":2819,"date":"2017-09-14T21:44:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T01:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=2819"},"modified":"2017-09-14T21:44:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T01:44:47","slug":"stanley-i-presume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/14\/stanley-i-presume\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley, I Presume"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in April, I went for a 26-mile bike ride, which is a typical length for the early to mid-Spring as I get back in cycling shape.\u00a0 I rode to Westfield, Mass to check out Stanley Park<\/a>, which I’d heard about but had never visited.<\/p>\n

I entered the park on the South side, at a sort-of “back entrance”.\u00a0 There was a small parking lot there, which featured the entrance to hiking trails in a wooded area.\u00a0 The trail just looked like a little dirt road at first, but then became more of a traditional hiking trail further along (click on images to view larger).<\/p>\n

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The trail I hiked mostly followed the Little River, which flows along the southern part of the park.\u00a0 There are a number of nice views of the water, such as this:<\/p>\n

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I did not see a lot of wildlife, but did catch sight of this snake, just after I heard it slither off the trail into the groundcover:<\/p>\n

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At one point, the trail I was on crossed a tributary stream, doing so on a floating bridge:<\/p>\n

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There was a sign dedicating that bridge:<\/p>\n

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I walked through the trails for about 90 minutes, before getting back to my bike.\u00a0 I then ended up walking the bike through other parts of the park, such as past a duck pond:<\/p>\n

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which had a swan in it, as well as ducks.\u00a0 There were also various kinds of geese around, including these white ones:<\/p>\n

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Near the pond are a couple of small, old structures, like this one with a water wheel:<\/p>\n

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As I moved past here toward the front of the park, I passed through a couple of the garden areas, including the Asian Garden (named for the structures erected more than the plant life).<\/p>\n

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Near those gardens, along the front side of the park, were a series of athletic fields and picnic areas.\u00a0 For a park in a somewhat urban area, it was not only larger than I expected, but surprisingly diverse in the types of terrain and facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in April, I went for a 26-mile bike ride, which is a typical length for the early to mid-Spring as I get back in cycling shape.\u00a0 I rode to Westfield, Mass to check out Stanley Park, which I’d heard about but had never visited. I entered the park on the South side, at a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}