Niagara Falls

A few weeks ago we drove to upstate New York to visit Palmyra and Niagara Falls. These pictures are all from the Canadian side of the falls. It's amazing how much water is flowing down the falls, it reminded me of a watered-down version of the Grand Canyon. We had a good time just sitting there on the boardwalk and staring at the sheer magnitude of it!

Apparently a lot of people have tried going over the falls in barrells or tubes, a couple people have actually survived the falls without any sort of flotation device. Plenty of others were less fortunate, however.

With all that water falling, it generates a huge rising mist cloud and an incredible roar.

We took a ride on the "Maid of the Mist" which travels up the river to the base of the falls. Looking at the boat from above it didn't seem to get that close to the waterfall but once we got on the boat we realized it actually gets very, very close! The water is churning like crazy, lots of waves, a ton of wind, and of course, water. These parkas were a valiant effort but we still left the boat completely soaked.

You can see the erosion on the American Falls. A bunch of big rocks have fallen down.

We were approaching the base of the falls from the "Maid of the Mist".

Another shot of the view from below.

At night they shine colored lights on the falls, it's pretty cool. The colors change.

Part of the sequence is just white light shining on the water. After a nice night in Canada visiting the falls, enjoying a really bad breakfast buffet the next morning, and taking in the falls during daylight we were ready to come back home to the USA.