I wasn't really expecting to drive into the city and BOOM, falls, but there they are!
There are also a HUGE number of seagulls. A little seagull cloud sort of circulating a few hundred yards from the falls dropoff, and a cliff face completely dotted with little white specks, each one of which is a bird. I guess it's a seagull nesting area.
We went on the Maid of the Mist, of course, which is more like the Maid of the Drenching Column of Waterfall. We got so close to the mist we couldn't see anything but white and got driven under the part of the boat that had a nice little ceiling. At this point it was also starting to hail (!?) so you could also call it the Maid of Hypothermia.
After going way down to the bank and watching the water fall off, we went over to the Canadian side. The Canadian side is like--lots of people visit here? Fuck it, we're putting up a Hard Rock Cafe, and a haunted house, and an IMAX, and a restaurant that spins. It's like all the world's generic touristy stuff combined and a million hotels. My favorite totally inappropriate attraction was a Margaritaville restaurant that plays music as you walk past it in the 40 degree weather and hail. Outside of that however Niagara Falls seems to be very economically depressed. Every house or storefront we passed that wasn't decrepit looking was for rent.
The falls themselves from the Canadian side are really pretty, though. Even though--or maybe especially because--Canada is also like, you know how this majestic natural beauty could be better? We will throw some colored lights on it! Yeah!
If you go down the cliff to the Cave of the Winds you end up walking right through the seagulls' nesting area. Sounds like it's still too cold for them to be starting to lay eggs yet.
ReplyDeleteDudes, the falls are totally awesome, junk and all. I always have gone to the canadian side and it never doesn't blow my little mind. Wouldn't it be cool to get a barrel, get in the barrel and then go over the falls? NOT. And the Maid of the Mist is the best thing EVER, hypothermia and all. I love that they give you clothes to wear that flatter EVERYONE but I wish they would get even CLOSER to the falls.
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