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Originally from Dublin, Ireland. Moved to London and then Leeds, England, I now live in Toronto, Canada. Oh and now back again. Anyway, you can take the woman out of Ireland but, you know the rest. Basically the stuff on here will be the same no matter where I am. Ramblings and rantings about stuff, some from Canada.Some of them really do say 'eh' ~~~~~ "ascertaining the comprehension, continued interest, agreement, etc., of the person or persons addressed"

Monday, September 04, 2006

Doing the tourist thing


It's said that Toronto is a great place to live but not so great to visit, because there are not so many 'must see' tourist attractions.
The first 'must see' is Niagara falls. Technicially, not actually in Toronto, at all.
I saw the falls 6 years ago and on this second visit was not surprised to find the full WOW factor still there.
It's not easy to see that those are people standing there along the ridge.
Niagara-on-the-Lake has as many flowers lining it's streets, now as then.

We wondered how much erosion there had been in the 6 years.
Niagara Falls has eroded 11.4 kilometers (7.1 miles) during the last 12,300 years.
According to Wikipedia "Until the modern era, the Falls were receding southward owing to erosion from two to ten feet (0.6 to 3.0 m) per year. This process was slowed initially by diversion of increasing amounts of flow from the Niagara River into hydroelectric plants in both the United States and Canada"
It seemed to be pretty much in the same place that we left it, as far as I could see.

11 Comments:

At Wed Sept 06, 02:25:00 p.m., Blogger Sweary said...

I hate when I leave a waterfall down for a minute and it's scarpered by the time I go to pick it up. I'm glad your one is behaving itself.

 
At Wed Sept 06, 05:31:00 p.m., Blogger Kartik said...

If i wait long enough, it'll move to this side of the world. Nice! I'll save on traveling.

 
At Wed Sept 06, 07:37:00 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

hope you all enjoyed it.

s

 
At Thu Sept 07, 05:07:00 p.m., Blogger Barry said...

Was at the falls in April. An amzing place, shame about the casinos lining the streets behind it. Great photo however! Have you tried going behind it?

 
At Thu Sept 07, 05:21:00 p.m., Blogger Sandra said...

I must say that the Maid of the Mist is my all-time favourite overpriced tacky tourist thing. If you haven't done it, I highly recommend it.

 
At Thu Sept 07, 08:47:00 p.m., Blogger Amanda said...

the photo was taken while on the Maid of The Mist, getting soaking wey even though wearing the big blue rain-mac thing.
yeah the rest of Niagara is tacky to a very high degree.

 
At Fri Sept 08, 01:52:00 a.m., Blogger Anthony said...

Wow, you took that picture! Great!

Also, I don't know how to link to you on my blog so I'll just call you "Nice Canadian Girl".

 
At Fri Sept 08, 01:45:00 p.m., Anonymous Anonymous said...

Umm shes Irish (and Im quite sure complete with the sexy accent :) )

I love travelling, but so far i have been constrained to my country :(

Hopefully that will change soon..

That is a great picture!

SS

 
At Fri Sept 08, 01:53:00 p.m., Blogger Kathy said...

Great picture! Saw the Falls as a child, was afraid that I would fall in.
Have a great vacation!

Taffy

 
At Sat Sept 09, 05:15:00 p.m., Blogger Amanda said...

well thanks SilverS, not sure about your assesment on the accent but let's say you're right.
the falls inspired many photos so I might put some more up at a later stage
and crimsonking- nice canadian lady, yeah I'm not really any of those 3 things, but thanks anyway!

 
At Sat Sept 09, 05:16:00 p.m., Blogger Amanda said...

i meant 'girl' (not that either)

 

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