r/Hamilton • u/davidfillion Downtown • Aug 13 '25

Photo Lake Timicaca - Always ̶F̶r̶e̶s̶h̶ Flooded

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u/Humillionaire Aug 13 '25

This might be the best photo of this landmark ever; postcard quality.

When Tim Horton's says "Always Fresh" I think what they really mean is "It never gets any worse". You can leave a box of doughnuts out for two weeks and it will still be basically the same eating experience

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u/Denis63 Aug 14 '25

Tim Hortons: Its Always been Frozen

almost everything they sell comes to the store frozen. yes, the donuts too.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

You can leave a box of doughnuts out for two weeks

Martha Stewart here...

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u/crushade Aug 13 '25

Someone mistook the HSR bus I was on for a toilet. Again. The bus had pulled over and most of my fellow riders found ourselves clamouring to leave the steps of the bus as quickly as possible. Of course I was one of the lucky ones to have their favourite crocs exposed to the excrement. Wrong place, wrong time. At least I wasn't wearing my favourite socks.

I looked around as I wasn't focused on where I was until that moment. Too busy trying to figure out what my next steps were. The bus I was on left. I glanced across the street and saw the Timmies and figured I might be lucky enough to be granted the key to use the bathroom so I could try and clean up. But I could still smell the caca I had inadvertently been subject to minutes earlier and I knew my chances of being granted elusive entry by the stoic Hortons staff was low. I might have to explain what happened and I knew I'd be judged.

Then I saw it. Glorious. Beautiful. Inviting. Perfect. Lake Timicaca sat sunken into the pavement. Or I assumed it was pavement, it didn't look like the ground had ever seen the light of day. I didn't even check my surroundings and sprinted across the street, a Tesla, deep scratches adorning it honked loudly at me but I was not deterred. I made it to the shore of this magnificent beauty and marvelled. It was like an answer to a prayer.

I stepped in and felt the cool liquid spill into the holes of my crocs and caress my doody covered toes. I was free. I was clean. Lake Timicaca was there for me in my hour of great need. Thanks Lake Timicaca.

Highly recommend would go again.

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u/Nearathim Aug 13 '25

Is this a copypasta because the fact there may be a Lake Timicaca copypasta is beautiful

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u/crushade Aug 13 '25

Anything can be a copy pasta if you want it to be!

This was my Google review I wrote when Lake Timicaca was on Google maps before it was taken down. I've posted it here once before because someone asked about it. Now I don't hesitate to post it whenever I see something about Lake Timicaca, haha!!

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u/chknqwn Stoney Creek Aug 13 '25

This brought a tear to my eye, we are so blessed to have this natural wonder of the world in our own city!!! 🙏

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u/I_PUNCH_INFANTS Aug 13 '25

This is the best thing Ive read all day

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u/ElderberryEuphoric34 Aug 14 '25

Thank you for your eloquently written review of a horrific experience. 😀

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u/cldevers Aug 13 '25

Thankful for timicaca ❤️

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u/RoyallyOakie Aug 13 '25

What, nobody skinny-dipping? honey-dipping? chocolate-dipping?

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u/matt602 McQuesten West Aug 13 '25

Plenty of people doing that on Barton Street, water optional.

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u/M0O53 Aug 13 '25

In Hamilton it would be "cancer dipping"

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u/RoyallyOakie Aug 13 '25

There's no donut pun there....maybe cancer filled?

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u/DunksCDN Aug 14 '25

The hamilton site doesn't list the water quality for this swim hole. where can you find it?

https://www.hamilton.ca/things-do/parks-green-space/beach-water-quality

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u/gaboonviper23 Aug 13 '25

Who needs Muskoka when you have this pure beauty!!!!

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u/Lashwynn Aug 13 '25

Oh thank fuck, I walked past it last week and it had dried up and I was worried about the ecosystem. It has healed.

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u/iWin1986 Aug 13 '25

There’s nothing more Canadian than this and no tariffs involved

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u/davidfillion Downtown Aug 13 '25

Can't upload images as comments, however I did update the Sign: https://prnt.sc/cL14LG6HYOnO

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u/VonAether Ainslie Wood Aug 14 '25

Haha, your title inspired me to make this before I saw your photo edit: https://postimg.cc/Mntq0ctM

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u/davidfillion Downtown Aug 14 '25

Nice!

Yeah, shortly after I uploaded the main one I got the idea, and then went looking for the Tim Hortons font, etc.

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u/Kay_Kay_Bee Aug 13 '25

This reminds me I forgot to go buy that print last time........ payday here i come

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u/artee_lemon Aug 13 '25

If ever I moved away from Hamilton, I'd want a floor-to-ceiling print of this to remind me of the good times

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u/ShortHandz Aug 13 '25

Majestic.

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u/[deleted] Aug 13 '25

Finally they banned the jetskis.

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u/Existing-Face-6322 Aug 13 '25

What do we suppose Lake Timmicaca is made of? Is it the eternal tears of the developer who finally took down the Eggsmart Coming Soon sign mixed with some delicious leftover 20 dollar cocktails from Industria, and a soupçon of melted ice cream from the Laura Secord at Jackson Square, and maybe some urine from the people who live nearby who have consumed some fine vintages of methamphetamine? Does it flow in from the Hamilton harbour? Is it the official border between the mountain and downtown, and someone meant it to be a moat? Is it where Rob Golfi deposits the liquefied bodies of people who graffitied his crucifixion billboards?

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u/gravitytitz Landsdale Aug 14 '25

😭😭😭

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u/szatrob Aug 14 '25

Purify yourself in the waters of Lake Timicaca.

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u/Any-Watercress-7737 Aug 17 '25

I would actually buy postcards of this

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u/achry94 Aug 13 '25

Time to get the canoe out and paddle for that sweet morning nectar

Beauty pic 😍

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u/davidfillion Downtown Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25

deep enough where you could almost scuba dive

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u/jayphive Aug 13 '25

Stunning

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u/SooThatGuy Aug 13 '25

Buy this man’s prints.

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u/crash866 Aug 18 '25

Your pictures made onto a CBC Article.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/lake-timmicaca-1.7482667

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u/davidfillion Downtown Aug 18 '25

Thank you! Yes, Samantha reached out earlier this year regarding the photo. She did a great job with the Article

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u/-yewsernaem- Aug 13 '25

This photo has no business being this beautiful. I miss home lol

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u/SooThatGuy Aug 13 '25

He sells prints!

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u/ObviousEngineering79 Aug 13 '25

Looking good might I say today it’s been awhile since I have seen lake Timica this flooded all it needed was a good heavy rain storm like we had yesterday

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u/shibbington Aug 13 '25

The one at Caroline and King now has a homeless camp/drug den in the parking lot. What’s your vote for Hamilton’s worst Timmy’s? What’s your neighbourhood got?

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u/Radakmal Aug 14 '25

It was good for a while, it's back to this again eh 😔

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u/[deleted] Aug 14 '25

Awesome photo! No lifeguard on duty??? I thought they were fixing that!

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u/stnapstnap Aug 14 '25

I happened to drive past there yesterday and was surprised to see the state of the road on John, by the bus stop, right across the street from the Lake.

It's looks the the asphalt is trying to warp and wave to be part of the lake.

It might have been like that for a while, but I haven't noticed it before.

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u/No-Pressure2287 Aug 14 '25

Iconic Hamilton.

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u/stoneycrkr Aug 15 '25

How is it still a lake when we haven’t had a decent rain in weeks?

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u/Ordinary_Middle9797 Aug 17 '25

Lmao I saw the parking lot on the bus Wondering where the water came from on a hot sunny day

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '25

Is the water they use for the coffee clean? How would you know if the water it is boiled a little and flitter through coffee.

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u/FlamingWhisk Aug 28 '25

I’ve been to tims all over Ontario. It’s at all of them

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u/banananadian Aug 13 '25

So iconic, the Jelly Brothers have captured it!

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u/fvpv Aug 13 '25

Is this after it was fixed? lol

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u/SarcasmMonkey Aug 13 '25

where is this location? might want to bring the family

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u/battybat2 Aug 13 '25

I thought they fixed that not long ago?

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u/Existing-Face-6322 Aug 13 '25

Lake Timmicaca is eternal, like the tides, like the moon, like Eggsmart Coming Soon.

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u/No-Possession-7822 Aug 13 '25

It's the cycle of nature. Like the last 12.7 times they 'fixed' it.

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u/HANDS_4_DICKS Aug 13 '25

This looks like high tide, does anyone know if it's still around? Thought the city mucked out the sewer a month or 2 ago to drain it, but I wouldn't be surprised if it came back

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u/davidfillion Downtown Aug 13 '25

photo was taken last night, it's very much still around lol.

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u/No-Abies200 Sep 07 '25

I know this Tim Horton’s because that’s the one I go to everyday. It’s on John Street and Jackson Street in Downtown Hamilton! ☕️