[URBAN NOTE] Niagara Falls: Quick Notes
Jun. 2nd, 2007 07:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonald
The above picture of Niagara Falls is the best picture I managed to take of the falls during my stay there last weekend, standing on the steps of Casino Niagara. Horseshoe Falls is visible on the right, and the American Falls with the smaller Bridal Veil Falls are in the left of the picture.
More than eighty photos survived the weekend and Jerry's culls, and are now available at my Flickr account. Half of the photos weren't taken in Niagara Falls at all, but instead were taken at the African Lion Safari park outside of Hamilton. The giraffes and antelopes and baboons seemed to fit well into their spacious fenced enclosures in rural southern Ontario, and the fenced-away lions seemed quite comfortable too.
Niagara Falls, Ontario isn't much to look at, with an economy that is fairly depressed outside of the tourist sector, which is concentrated in the Clifton Hill area downstream of the Falls in all of its rather remarkable tacky glory.
A great vast tourist industry has sprung up in Niagara Falls, to take advantage of the captive audience of people visiting the falls. Outside of a rather enormous number of wax museums, the biggest non-Falls attraction is
Marineland, a water park in the southeast of the city of Niagara Falls above the falls that has acquired something of an iconic character among Ontarians of a certain age.
The various rides and whatnot were fun, and it was a nice bright hot summer day, but I was particularly taken by the belugas. Aren't they cute?
