Pylon path
Ferry Street, Niagara Falls, Ontario
landscape
Tripping the Lake Fantastic
Niagara Falls, Ontario
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.
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White Water
whitewater rapids
Niagara River, Ontario
Properly speaking, the river is a strait, connecting Lake Erie, above the Falls with Lake Ontario, below them. This is considered the most dangerous, un-navigable class of rapids.
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Important Bird Area
Niagara Falls, Ontario
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.
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Bird, Falls
Niagara Falls, Ontario
The bird gives some sense of the scale. The haze is caused by all the water misting into the air.
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First Look at the Falls
Looking down from a height
through the flowers of the promenade
The American-side Falls are only about half the height of the Canadian-side.
Niagara Falls, Ontario
The Falls really are stunning. I will try not to bore with too many, too touristy shots but it’s hard not to want to capture some of their majesty from every angle, as hordes of tourists were doing with cameras and phones. Click any image to see them all enlarged.
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Shavian Flowers?
Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Niagara-on-the-Lake is also the home of the Shaw Festival and in the evening we saw an extremely good production of Howard Barker’s Victory. I was not previously familiar with Barker and read up on him a bit after the play. While, ultimately, I’m not sold on his reported approach to theatre or what I was able to take away from the play, it was certainly an interesting evening of serious drama, well acted, particularly, I thought, by Martha Burns as the widow Bradshaw. In the intermission we sat briefly in a small garden plaza behind the theatre, bordering a meadow, whence this picture.
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Another Photo Session
The couple
The photographer
A popular place for taking pictures. Click either image to see them enlarged.
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Calm
Lake Ontario, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
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The Falls
Niagara Falls, Ontario
