Thursday, July 30, 2015

NIAGARA FALLS - Part 2

On Sat. July 11 we took a commercial tour of the American side with 15 others folks. We saw parts in detail which we bypassed the day before.

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Our guide, Eric, teaches History in a local junior high school. He did a fine job of showing us some of the sights and avoiding long lines to the more popular attractions.

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Today’s tour began downstream from the falls where cable cars run across the gorge, with boarding  the Canadian side.

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Cable car riders get a great view of the whirlpool at the end of the rapids. Our guide said that a body entering the whirlpool will emerge downstream about 6 months later.

 

 

 

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 Here are the rapids in the gorge looking upstream from the whirlpool.

 

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This view of Horseshoe falls differs from that of the day before due to the wind pushing the mist away from the falls.

 

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We were treated  to a rainbow in the mist.

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Our view of the day!

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