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This is the illustrated account of our 4th of July vacation to Niagara. Be sure to see the New York gallery for the completion of our vacation. All pictures are thumbnails. Click on them if you want to see a bigger and better picture, under 81.1k. |
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| I have seen plenty of waterfalls in my lifetime, but Niagara Falls overwhelms them all. Not by height, because the Horseshoe Falls are only 167 feet high, but by pure volume of water--power. The Horseshoe Falls is 2600 feet across it's brink, and 600,000 gallons of water per second go whipping over it's edge. Now that's crazy. |
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The American Falls is also massive, with a 1060 foot brink length, and height of 176 feet. It moves 150,000 gallons of water over its edge per second. Sure, only 1/4 of the Horseshoe Falls, but you try to suck 150,000 gallons of water through a straw in one second! | |
| This is the Bridal Veil Falls, which no one ever gives the stats for even though there's more water going over it than most other waterfalls I've seen before. I guess they call them the Bridal Veil Falls because Niagara is known as the "Honeymoon Capital". I don't know if people enjoy wading through the tourists or paying $150 a night for a motel, but I don't think Niagara Falls would be my first honeymoon choice. Then again, we were there on the Niagara's busiest weekend of the year... |
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This picture of the Horseshoe Falls looks like the river is just getting sucked into a black hole-ish cavern. They actually diverted 50 to 75 percent of the water that used to go over the falls! Can you imagine what the discovers of these falls thought when they first saw, or even heard, the falls?
Like Derrick so insightfully said, "That's a lot of water". |
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| And yet, with all that power there are still quiet little trickles making their way down the cliff without hurry or majestic show of power. |
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As you may have noticed in the previous pictures of the American Falls, there is always a rainbow when the sun is out around there. Yet another peaceful sight right within the roaring falls. | |
| My most favorite picture of the vacation--this is the Bridal Veil Falls, the "insignificant" one. |
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