This summer, we went to Niagara and Toronto. There are photographs of our trip.
The north polar region seen from the window of an airplane. The water of this glacier formed 99% of the head in the Great Lakes, was the explanation from a guide.
Niagara
The American Falls seen from Maid of the Mist. Niagara.
Similarly, it is the Canadian waterfall. It was an amazing spray.
Canadian waterfall. The place from which the water of Lake Erie just falls into the Niagara river
The basin of the canadian waterfall. The rainbow is caused by the spray. This is a photograph in the morning. The white flower,Queen Ann, seen to the front was everywhere in the town of Niagara.
It is a rainbow over the Canadian waterfall. The rainbow started in the evening 水煙(spray) where it soars from the basin of a waterfall. This was seen when the setting sun hit in the evening.
The town of Niagara seen from the Skylon Tower.
The opposite side of the American Falls and the Niagara river is the city area of Niagara, the United States. To the left is the rainbow bridge leading to the United States.
According to the guide, although going out was safe for the Canadian side till 12:00 at night, going out at night on the United States side was dangerous.
To the left is the American Falls and the right is the Canadian waterfall. A floodgate is built for the upstream and the half of the amount of water which flows here is turned to water-power generation. Although the waterfall was receding upstream by 1m every year due to errosion, it has reduced to caly several cm corrosion, thanks to regulation It is said that it gets husky at the American Falls and it will go up if this floodgate did not exist.
The private house generally seen in the Niagara city area. The vacant lot can also be seen.
Spanish Aero Car
Although it may be difficult to see since the photograph is small, a gondola is neer the middle. There is a whirlpool located on the lower river in Niagara. A cable car has passes over, However, since the guide was too old, we did not ride it.
Niagara on the Lake
It was crowded with many peaple although it was an old and small town.
Niagara Glen
The station of an old railroad had become a center for the protection of nature.
You can walk down the cliff to the lower basin of the waterfall, to view the hole made from the falls, and the rotating of rocks from the river.
The naturalist guide explained that a glocier 5000m thick melted and created the North American continent.
Moss and matsutake mashrooms can be seen right in the middle of the picture.
It is suspected that the rock from the bottom of the Niagara river collapsed, and it exploded and dropped downward. The rock which fell pokes up aslant to the ground.
Bottom of the Niagara river, which is now part of the present earth surface. The tour which comes here according to the JTB guide is a new tour. These were a Japanese guide and a mini trekking tour(2 of us / to a Canadian naturalist ).
Wild ginger
Such a plant cannot be found easily. It grows in a rock crack in the cliff.
Toronto
A patrol of the mounted policemen who ride on horses in the Toronto streets. There is horse dung on the streets sometimes.
A squirrel and a pigeon in a park.
The central part of Toronto viewed from CN Tower. There is an underground center in the buildings of the right-hand side central part. In the winter time, thetemperature can drop to-40 degreeC.
They were many green spaces still in the city.
CN Tower. Looking up from the bottom (left), and looking down through the glass floor.
The train at the Toronto station
In Toronto, a car parked at the road side, has a parking ticket in its windshield purchased from a vending machine on the road side.
The castle of Casa Loma. It dealt with power generation in Niagara, and the person who gained immense wealth built it in 1914. However, Toronto has now owened for the past ten years.
In Royal Ontario Museum, a stamp on the back of a hand instead of the admission ticket is used.
The old city office of Toronto
The entrance
A gatepost sculpture.
The expression was interesting. The right person is sticking out his tongue.
Provinee of Ontario legislature (Diet). The television station was interviewing someone in the park.
The inside of the Diet -- it was under renovation. Since the explanation was in English, the contents were not completely understood.
Speed bumps are located on a residential street, every 10m to slow cars down.
Barrie
About 2 hours north of Toronto. The bus stop of Barrie
After arriving in Japan, we toured around Kamakura on the next day.
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