On our way
To say that Niagara Falls was on Miliss’s bucket list was an understatement. She’s been talking about seeing Niagara Falls since we were climbing out of Georgia.
She loved it-we loved it!
With bits of web travel research in mind, and taking advantage of free parking (because we stayed in a state park, camping Fees we also a 1/2 price sale), we set fourth to explore on foot. Avoiding the tourist traps, we walked south to north over the US/Canada border and back again taking in all the view points we could find in 7.5 miles. Yes we did get our tickets and don our cheap plastic ponchos and even cheaper sandals and joined the tourist getting soaked at the bottom of the American falls. What a rush!, in a completely fun refreshing activity.
The falls were created some 15,000 years ago by the movements of massive glaciers, their giant pools (now known as the Great Lakes) and rock that moved around including up and down as glaciers weight was lifted.
Since the time when French explorers and their accompanying priests were encountering the natives in the early 1600’s the falls have eroded quite away back from their original line. Nikolai Tesla designed and build the 1st hydroelectric power plant in North America here and it was a big deal to shuffle all that power off to Buffalo almost 30 miles away.
Given that we were in there late September the magnificence of the falls weren’t deterred by the size of the crowds, in fact it was fun to watch people from all over the world take in the same awesome sights and splashing as we did. A great day, we want to come back in the dead of winter.
