Saturday, July 26, 2008

Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is less than three hours north of Conneaut Lake. Our daughter said that she wasn't going home this summer until she saw Niagara Falls. So, yesterday, with a packed car, we headed North. It had been 15 years since Bob and I had been. We looked at the falls from both the American and Canadian sides, and we took the obligatory ride on the Maid of the Mist, the tour boat that brings you on a very wet ride to the base of the falls.

You get very close to the falls, and very wet as a result! On the top deck of the Maid of the Mist...

Ninety per cent of the water goes over the Canadian Falls, and only ten per cent over the American Falls. View of the Canadian Falls from the Maid of the Mist...

In the blue Maid of the Mist raincoats...

Looking down at the Maid of the Mist...

In case you couldn't figure this out yourself...

Looking at the Canadian Falls from Goat Island on the American side...

On the Canadian side with Bridal Veil in the background...

Even looking at the falls from above, you become soaking wet because there is so much mist. A double rainbow in the mist...

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