Niagara Falls

On our 2nd day in Toronto, we were on organised trip to Niagara Falls. Joining up with our fellow travellers for the  next 17 days for the first time .  The tour guide was an elderly lady who'd been in the tour guide business for 40 years who really knew her stuff , and was funny with it.  She had an obsession and hatred of the number of condominiums being built in and around Toronto, which in the end, Pam and I thought hilarious.

Anyway, after a 2 hour coach trip we arrived at the Falls, which by any standard are quite magnificent.

   First part of the visit was to go on the "Maid of the Mist" boat with the obligatory plastic poncho. Close up photos of the falls  at the same time as being drenched didn't work for us. But we managed one or two snaps on the 20 minute trip. 

Much better was the visit to the shoulder of the falls to see the water rushing over the edge.

And even better was our lunch in the revolving restaurant at the top of the Skyline Tower next to the falls.   

A nice lunch was followed with a coach trip visiting the whirlpool in the middle of the gorge,

then on to the picture book colonial town of Niagara on the Lake, with the obligatory ice cream from one of the twee tourist shops in the high street.

A full day's outing ended with a cheap pizza supper at the food hall opposite our hotel- the Sheraton Centre.