After seeing my daughter in front of her school, which is located in the northern part of the city, I went down to the south heading for the water front. Today's first destination was Toronto Island on Lake Ontario. The first picture was shot at the entrance of the port to the islands. It is called "skywalk", which is not so common in Japan, specifically in my hometown. I remembered my first visit to the U.S. It was 20 years ago in Minneapolis that I saw and knew a skywalk for the first time. My friend who was a researcher in the Mayo Clinic explained to me how critically cold it was in winter. I looked nostalgically back at those days. He has already passed away. Anyway, I'll continue. The next picture was the ferry which I got on-board. The cars and trucks got on first and the people next.
Abruptly I was assailed by a big sound in the third picture. It was from a passenger plane flying right above, which landed in the airport which I had viewed from the CN tower on the previous day. The next picture from the ferry is one of the three ports in Toronto Islands, Hanlan's Point. I was wondering from what the name "Hanlan" derived, and I found the statue of Mr. Hanlan and the description about him near the port. He seemed to have been a rowing phenomenon in 19th century.
(Vocabulary)
assail (文)〈人〉を悩ませる, さいなむ
be assailed by/with doubts 疑問に悩まされる
…を激しく非難する assail sb for sth ＜人＞を＜…＞のことで激しく非難する
〈悪臭・騒音などが〉 …を襲う
〈敵・陣地など〉 を襲う, 襲撃する = attack
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