Niagara Falls
Oh Canada! So weird to be driving into a foreign country. Last Sunday the whole family entered Canada via the Peace Bridge to visit Niagara Falls.
From there we drove up the Niagara Scenic Parkway, leisurely winding our way alongside the river to the falls. Here’s our first view of the mist above the Canadian Horseshoe Falls (and all the hotels opposite the falls).
We found parking and made our way down to a spot just across from the American Falls. The little chunk of falling water on the right is actually a separate waterfall, the Bridal Veil Falls.
Then we walked toward the Canadian side.
The Maid of the Mist approaching the base of the falls. I had no clue it basically drove into the bottom of the waterfall. Something I’ll have to do next time.
Standing at the very edge of the falls. Amazing that I could get so close. The lip was just feet away.
We all took an elevator down to the base of the Horseshoe Falls and got unbelievable views looking up at the falls. And got unbelievably drenched by the mist.
Me and Stephanie in our yellow plastic bag “mistcoats.” Hawt. I mean haute.
Afterwards, Stephanie, dad, and I drove downriver, north of the whirlpool, and hiked into the gorge created by thousands of years of the falls eating away at the rock. In the future “the falls will eventually recede far enough to drain most of Lake Erie, the bottom of which is higher than the bottom of the falls. Engineers are working to reduce the rate of erosion to postpone this event as long as possible.”
Here’s a panorama taken from the river’s edge that I created with hugin.
Updated the panorama with an uncropped and better blended version.