Thanks to the Dodge Dudes in Kitchener, our truck sounds less like it is running on diesel now, and it has the okay to carry on with this trip. We are off on the backroads to Fort Erie and that route takes us through some more very rural, pleasant southern Ontario countryside. We drove over the Welland Canal but there weren’t any freighters in so it wasn’t very exciting.
The Old Fort Erie was defending Canada in the War of 1812. I’m sure I was asleep in history classes when all this interesting stuff was being taught! I’ll have to read up on it properly sometime. The Fort is shaped just like the Halifax Citadel and probably a few others.
Next is Niagara Falls. Hmmm, just like the pictures show. I didn’t realize there were a rather impressive set of rapids preceding the falls. I also didn’t expect so many people on a Tuesday either! Summer seems to have started altogether too soon for the rest of the population if you ask me. The line-up for the Maid of the Mist was too long for such a hot day and Oscar and Oreo are waiting for us in the truck so we walk almost to the falls and then right back again. I think my pictures are almost as good as the postcards we all have seen.
There is a nice road called the Niagara Parkway that is a great way to get to Niagara-on-the-Lake. That place is crawling with tourists from Japan, couldn’t someone have stayed home today?
After a walk around we get back in the truck and complete the circuit of the peninsula. We do this by driving past St. Catherines and across an impressive bridge at Hamilton Harbour, oops we are back on the road to Toronto, which is a mistake corrected by taking an off ramp and then going back whence we came. We seem to need to get turned around at least once a day!
What did you think of Niagra? I was there when the power went out, so we couldn’t even see all of the things we wanted to. However, with the lineup for the Maid of the Mist I’m not sure we would have gone.