Sushi Dinner, Taking it Easy at the Hotel

Canada travelog #26
Burlington, ON · Thu, 28 Aug 2025. 9am.

Yesterday we finished up our visit to Niagara Falls by mid-afternoon and drove back through Hamilton to our hotel in Burlington. We discussed where to have dinner and decided to treat ourselves to an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant. Yeah, I know, all-you-can-eat does not exactly say "quality"... but this restaurant had some surprisingly good dishes. A teriyaki steak dish I ordered was fantastic. Two kinds of tuna sashimi I ordered were bland, but the salmon sashimi (one of my favorites) was totally on-point. I ordered several pieces. And the eel nigiri was good enough that I ordered seconds, too. Oh, and then dim sum style sesame balls for dessert. Mmm, sesame balls! Much better than dry balls. 🤣

After dinner we came back to the hotel and relaxed for the evening. I went downstairs for a soak in the hot tub. This time Hawk joined me.

This morning has been a slow morning. We ate at the complimentary breakfast restaurant since our store-bought breakfast food was underwhelming. Now we're back at the room relaxing rather than rushing out to visit waterfalls. Why? Because there's not much left on our list at this point. After crossing off all the falls that are dry like Balls there are only two more to visit. And we've got two left here, today and tomorrow— and that's even after shortening our trip by 2 days.

Yesterday afternoon, on the drive back from Niagara, I was thinking to myself, We could have left this evening. But here we still are, for 2 more days. (At least it's not 4!) We'll go out in a bit.

Felker's Falls and Back to the Hotel

Canada travelog #27
Back at the hotel · Thu, 28 Aug 2025. 4pm.

Today we visited one waterfalls, Felker's Falls. Well, we tried to visit others, but they were dry. Even though it's been raining today. Yeah, this is like the worst combination of conditions for waterfall hikes: the waterfalls are dry while we get soaked. 👎

Felker's Falls is in a city park in Hamilton. It's such a low key area. It's behind a children's playground in a suburban neighborhood. We parked by the trashcans, walked past the jungle gym, and to the hiking trails at the back.

"Are we in the right place?" we wondered. Then we saw fences everywhere and knew we were. 🤣



We followed once fenced path a short distance around the falls where the view was poor then doubled back to hike another fenced path on the other side.

We briefly entertained the question Can we hike to the bottom? It would be too steep going down the side of the canyon from above. The maps and a description on AllTrails imply we could partly hike an established trail, partly rock-hop up the creek from the bottom; but the weather was darkening and these falls just weren't big enough to be worth it. We decided to content ourselves with this view.



It's good we decided to be content here, because on our (short) walk back to the car it started to rain. And I don't just mean a drizzle or misty rain. We were dressed for that. No, it started to pour. We got to the car, hung our rain jackets to dry over our seat backs, and drove on to the next location.

I don't even remember now what the name of the next falls we visited was. It was out past Devil's Punchbowl— or, as I've been calling it since visiting there on Monday, Devil's Dustbowl. It was dry. We decided to pack it in for the day, ate lunch down the hill in town, then drove back out to the hotel.

Now we're back at the hotel. We figure we'll chill here for the rest of the day. We've kind of run out of things to do since dry balls cut short our list of activities. We're petered out at this point.

At least there's one more falls we can visit tomorrow before we go home, when the weather should be better again. Hawk put that falls near the bottom of the list because it charges a hefty entrance fee and has a reservation system. But we're scraping bottom here, so it's what's left on the list.