Curse of the Drinking Classes
Tag: Canada
I Love it Here
Ferry Street
Treasure on the Lane
The Portage Road, an ancient First Nations pathway becomes Main Street in town (a bit like Broadway in New York). The area where Main Street crosses Ferry Street is filled with pawnbrokers and payday lenders.
Advance
Continuing along Ferry Street we came to the Drummond Hill Cemetery and the Lundy’s Lane Battlefield Park, both rather beautiful and showing off much of what we’d just learned in the History Museum. Across the street from the Cemetery, on the outskirts of the Niagara Falls Christian Ministries and in the shadow of the Advance Inn, were these lonely straggler graves, their inscriptions wiped away by history.
Reflective Self Portrait
We spent an enjoyable hour or two in the newish History Museum adjoining the old Stamford Town Hall. There were exhibits on the War of 1812 and an interesting set of beadwork on doors that is part of a truth and reconciliation project related to the Indian Residential School system horrors.
Jesus Soon
Niagara – Electrifying North America
Breakfast of Champions
Night Falls
Niagara Falls, Ontario
Just in case the drama and majesty of the Falls are not enough, they are lit up at night in changing colors and throughout the tourist season there is a nightly fireworks display. Some years ago I remember setting up my camera on a tripod and taking long, 30-second exposures at low ISOs. These were shot handheld on automatic through my hotel-room window with some minimal noise reduction, contrast and a few other minor adjustments. (Click any image to see them all enlarged.)
Brasa
Grandmother
Selfie Time
Over the Rainbow
One effect of all the water spray and mist from the Falls is rainbows. Lots of wet phones captured them – thank goodness my Fuji is weatherproof!
Tripping the Lake Fantastic
Another obligatory stop on the tourist trail is the boat ride by the Falls, in which you get drenched with water spraying off the waterfalls. Here, before the deluge, you can see a bird taking off from the water and the skips behind it.
Parasol
Outside the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sarira Stupa we visited, we ran into some colorful folks. There were quite a few Ramada Inn’s and almost all of them appeared to be paired with an IHOP.
Important Bird Area
The Niagara Falls area has been designated a “globally significant Important Bird Area,” an area identified using an internationally agreed set of criteria, developed identified by BirdLife International, as being globally important for the conservation of bird populations.
Just Do It!
Danger
Those are the American Falls in the background. We only saw one young man ignoring the clear message of this sign and performing a handstand on the outside of the railing for his girlfriend to photograph.
Bird, Falls
The bird gives some sense of the scale. The haze is caused by all the water misting into the air.