Day 103 Niagara Falls Ontario Canada
Trip Start
May 07, 2008
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Trip End
Nov 22, 2008
Niagara Falls,
Ontario,
Canada
Monday, August 18, 2008
A relaxed start today, (we already know the transport system, so no big deal to get going early)
We bought our $6 all day travel passes at the KOA office and caught the 9:30 shuttle back into Downtown.
We chose to take the green loop this morning, this allowed us to take in "The Whirlpool Aero Ride" over the Whirlpool, This is an area in the river where the water has come through a narrow gorge accepting all of the water from the Niagara Falls forcing it's way into this bend in the river of around 300Degree turn in, causing extreme turbulence and thus creating many whirlpools.
The cable car simple crosses the river and returns. The short journey apparently crosses the border 4 times in the two trips.
The view of the river from 250 feet directly over this whirlpool that has a depth of 125 feet, was again a visual of the power of nature and water relentlessly reshaping the planet.
Back on the shuttle to head back into the downtown area and the bus interchange site, we stopped off and had a coffee break (tea for the non coffee drinkers) and then jumped on the Blue line Shuttle, This took us around another section of the Niagara parks area and gave us a view of the upper end of the river before it reached the falls, then back into downtown, we hopped off and walked the last section into the downtown area, but were not tempted by the other options of shows like Frankenstein's house, or the haunted house type of thrills.
We had lunch, and decided to have one more look at the falls without the Sunday crowds from both ends, making good use of the shuttle bus system to save our weary legs.
Estimate the amount of Water
We hopped on our red line bus and headed home, Earnie stayed on to go directly home, but Karon had spotted some outlet shops and of course they required a look over with Rick being towed along behind.
We managed to all arrive home and at last as you can see we are back up and running with the internet.
We apologise for the non posting, but tiredness and lack of net connections at a couple of places, had caused the delay.
We are doing ok and still absorbing and packing as much as possible into our journey, as no doubt you realize from the blog and the trip route.
Tomorrow we head into Toronto, and will spend a couple of days exploring that city.
