Proof there is more to the city than the city

So yesterday we took the streetcar about 20 minutes east to The Beaches area of the city. This is somewhere I'd never been before, but Zoe has been a couple of times with Rob. It's a bit different to the hustle and bustle of downtown, instead it is a different kind of hustle and bustle of people and canines.

The first stop was the very end of the streetcar route. The R. C. Harris Water Filtration Plant. This is an internationally renowned piece of industrial architecture. At the minute it is undergoing a lot of restoration so it's not easy to get photos of all of it, but it is still functional and supplies 45% of all the fresh water to the Toronto region.
Right beside the plant is the Lake Ontario coastline that runs to the Scarborough bluffs, a section of headland with what passes for cliffs in this area.
To the west are the beaches that run back towards downtown.
And I'll leave you with a picture of a beagle that kept trying to get up on the rocks to where I was sitting.