[PHOTO] Eight photos of Toronto from the CN Tower

[rfmcdonald]

I have made two other visits to the CN Tower, but last Monday's visit felt different. The first time I was in the CN Tower was in 2002, the next in 2003. Both times, I was very new to Toronto and did not know what streets or what buildings I was seeing from high above. This time I did know what I was seeing.

I knew that the below was Billy Bishop Airport, on the western end of the Toronto Islands.



I could follow the rail corridor as it stretched west, past the new condo districts to the south and under the bridges of Spadina Avenue, Bathurst Street, and Dufferin Street.





I could look north to the leafy west-end neighbourhoods I know well.



I could appreciate the safety cage used by the workers who, in cleaning the windows of the CN Tower, made these views possible.



I could pick out the line of towers stretching north along Yonge.



Going outside, I could pick out the Financial District through thick mesh.



Looking down over the lip of the CN Tower, on its eastern edge, from the east, I could see that corner of Toronto as if in miniature.



The view is fantastic. If you're in Toronto, you really should go.