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Yesterday morning I promised some pictures taken of Niagara Falls in a cold winter day. The first was taken at the brink of the Canadian-Horseshoe Falls, looking somewhat into the horseshoe. Clear, cold water, surrounded by ice and snow.
In this second picture I just turn around, looking north downriver at the ice that is in the Niagara River below the Canadian-Horseshoe Falls. In the distance is the Rainbow Bridge connecting Canada and the U.S. and on the right surrounded by mist is the American Falls.
The power of the Niagara River. Day and night, 365 days a year for thousands of years, Niagara Falls never sleeps. When you visit Niagara Falls and Table Rock, you stand at this very spot looking over the bring of the Falls.
Across the way from Table Rock at Niagara Falls is a parking lot. These trees line the hillside around the parking lot. They are ice covered by the mist from the Falls. It has been overcast a lot lately, so the sun isn’t glistening off these trees. I’ll try to get down to the Falls when the sky is clear and the sun is shining.
If you look carefully, you can see that portion of the Falls that is in the third picture above. Here I take in more because I wanted to capture the ice along the edges of the Falls at the brink. The water is clear and you can see the bottom as it rushes over the brink into the gorge below.
Again, when you visit Table Rock, where you stand at the brink, overlooking the plunging water, there is just a railing separating you from the thundering power of Niagara. On February 11th, here’s what the railing looked like. All ice covered. Even the metal is feeling extra cold.
On this day I took 4 lovely folks from Port Hedland in Western Australia on a tour of the Niagara Region. We had a lot of laughs and they enjoyed the beauty and power of the Falls, and downriver to a couple of wineries (for some warming ice wine), a visit to Niagara-on-the-Lake and then to the Chocolate F/X for a chocolate fix. It was over 100F when they left home, so this was truly a different place to visit for them.
For more pictures, be sure to visit Gateway Niagara my picture blog.
Woke up this morning to snow and more falling. I say enough already, although I must admite that it looks pretty. Some would say “pretty cold.” Tonight I’ll post pics of the Falls and get them posted.
Wow, what a great idea and it’s finally coming. A skating rink called Rink at the Brink.
This skating rink is the latest attraction to Niagara Falls and it will operate during the Festival of Lights which opens November 27th, 2009. The skating rink is 18×36 metres (or about 60×120 feet), a good size for fun skating.
The rink will be in operation until the end of February 2010. It will have a steel and glass roof and have clear span windows so you can enjoy the view of Niagara Falls and will be open from 10AM to 10PM every day. I like the price too. Only $8 for adults and $5.75 for kids. You can even rent skates.
So get your blades out and sharpened, this promises to be a great attraction.
Amazon.com Review
Sometimes a place can be as good a subject for a “biography” as a person–and Niagara Falls turns out to be such a place. Fortunately, it found its ideal biographer in Canadian historian Pierre Berton, who chronicles its colorful history with a storyteller’s verve. Niagara Falls was a sort of laboratory and breeding ground for a wide variety of American phenomena: carnivals and theme parks, destination tourism, industrialization based on cheap hydroelectric power, and the conservation movement, among others. Berton weaves all this together in a readable, well-paced book rich with anecdotes, memorable characters, and nicely crafted language.
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From Publishers Weekly
The first Europeans to see Niagara Falls were struck with an awe akin to terror, but with the passage of a couple of centuries the site came to be regarded as the ultimate symbol of God’s creative power. Eve (more…)
As one of the Seven Wonders of the World – not to mention the honeymoon capital of North America – Niagara Falls is indisputably one of this continent’s most important tourist destinations. For the millions of visitors – year-in, year-out – and for residents of the area, author Hans Tammemagi’s Exploring Niagara turns a wide-angle lens on one of the most diverse and fascinating corners of Canada and in so doing opens our eyes to the fact that as wondrous as it is, there is a great deal more to the Niagara region than the Falls. Covering both sides of the Canada-U.S. border, and all within about a 30-minute drive of the Falls, the book unveils more than 50 tours and day trips to and through places of interest in the Niagara region. Descriptions of the trips themselves – varying from under an hour to several days – detail the historical and geographical highlights of each destination, and offer up a variety, suggesting tours that can be taken by car, by bicycle, or on foo (more…)
