Niagara Falls, Toronto, Wasaga Beach and Thousand Islands

We in frount of the American Falls at Night; no smile :-(

Me in front of the Canadian Falls

Big river in the background

The American Falls at Night

Maid of the Mist

Yeah, many things in one post. In the meantime we visited all these place and additionally Montréal and Québec. However, we didn't leave Québec yet. Everybody certainly knows the Niagara Falls. At least after one of the Superman movies. I didn't know that this movie had such a big impact on the Niagara Falls but it really seems to be the number one movie when it comes to the Niagara Falls. At least the movie posters found inside of the building are prove of this assumption. And it was definitely good to let myself inspire by the undestructible man. The Niagara Falls are definitely impressive. If it comes to the actual height of the falls they are by far not the tallest. However, i think the amount of water passing this place beats everything else. 4200 m3/s are moved in average. Well, I bet not even Superman could do something like that. It is not very surprising that the falls are pretty touristic. The popularity comes at a price. If one wants to see untouched waterfalls with a nice surrounding it's not the right place here. Still, it is definitely worth it. Especially if the water plunges into your face while you are standing on the "maid of the mist" boat. A must do at the Niagaras.

CN tower by Night

Toronto by Night

Again

And by dawn

Just missed the building

Torontos Times Square

Museum with Church in Background

After one day at the Niagaras we already left again and made our way to Toronto. Well, Toronto is one more big city. Pretty much like a US city actually. Skyscrapers and busy people. Additionally we find the CN tower which is the tallest building in the world. we spent our day by walking around in the downtown area and completed our day with a nice meal in the CN tower. The more than 20 dollar ride to the top is included by going to the restaurant. Additionaly you can pass the crowds and therefore feel a bit like a V.I.P. the only annoying part is the stupid photo that they wanna take of you before entering the elevator. And all queuing people are starring at you in the meantime. Sadly this stupid photo taking seems to be a must at every major attraction. Seattle Tower, CN tower, Maid of the Mist, Behind the Falls, Empire State Building and so forth. In summary it's always the same. Standing in front of a background picture or a bluescreen that is filled up with a background picture later on. I really wonder who is buying this shit. Well, most probably Japanese I suppose ;-)

Wasaga Beach

After one day Toronto we went to the longest freshwater sandbeach, called Wasaga Beach. Here I have to add that we were incredibly lucky with the weather. Before we arrived in the east we had nice weather almost every day while we heard about storms and floods in Montréal area. However, when we arrived in the east the weather was beautiful while the forecast showed a lot of rain in Vancouver area. NICE! Same thing for Wasaga. Beautiful weather the whole day. Even enough for a nice sunburn. It's just so much nicer to swin in saltfree water and still have a beach. The only thing you cannot do here is wavesurfing.

Houses on small Isands

The House just fits onto the Island


Castle

In the evening we left for the thousand island region. This is a island chain in the St. Lawrence river. Many of the islands are extremely small. The special thing about these small islands are the houses that sit on top of them. Often the whole island is covered by a house. Obviously that looks very funny. Sometimes it looks like the houses swim on the water. On one larger island there is even a castle. It has been built by the owner of the New York Waldorf Astoria. However, because of some sad love story he didn't finish some parts of it. Or at least he never used it for himself. In interest of the owners I hope that storms and floods are more seldom in the Thousand Island region than in Montréal.