Bird Kingdom

We also went to Bird Kingdom when we were at Niagara Falls and enjoyed seeing birds and taking photos of them. I have so many photos, it’s hard to choose just a few to share with you. Here are some of the better ones:

There were some other areas where there were reptiles and other creatures, so I got this photo of a turtle in that area.

Butterfly Conservatory

When we were at Niagara Falls we also went to the Butterfly Conservatory where there was thousands of butterflies kept in a very large enclosure. We spent a long time in there just looking and trying to get great photos. The following are some of the best photos I got – don’t ask me to tell you what kind of butterfly each one is though! (Remember to click on the photos to see them bigger!).

Nik Wallenda tightrope walk over Niagara Falls

We were lucky enough to be at Niagara Falls to see Nik Wallenda do his tightrope walk over the falls on Friday 15 June 2012. It was a very special event, and lots of people came to watch it.

Here are some of the crowds that were near us:

We had been walking all day and wanted to sit down while we waited a few hours for the walk to start, so we found a spot at the top of a grassy hill in front of an inflatable ad which we could lean our backs against.

We were also sitting right under the spot where the lights shine out on to the waterfalls, and not far from Skylon tower, which is on the right in this picture.

Here’s my photo of looking upward at the rays of light. The squiggly lines are the moths that were flying around in the lights.

Now for the tightrope walk! Here are some photos that I took (click on them to see them bigger).

Niagara Falls

I had a great couple of days at Niagara Falls. It was amazing seeing the falls for myself and I had fun doing all the touristy things with Rebekah.

Me with the falls in the background:

Here are some photos of the falls:

We went up Skylon tower and took some photos from up there:

There are two main waterfalls at Niagara which you can see in this photo. The one on the left is called the America falls, and it is on the US side of the border, and the one on the right in this photo is called Horseshoe Falls, and it connects between the US and Canada. All of the other photos in this blog post are of the Horseshoe Falls a bit closer than this photo.

One of the tourist activities we did was go for a ride on the ‘Maid of the Mist’ – a boat which goes right into the misty spray of the waterfall. You can see the boat right in the mist in this photo, just starting to turn back, as this is about as close as it goes.

Here’s me on the boat, all wrapped up in a disposable raincoat heading towards the falls:

Rebekah and I together as we head back away from the falls:

Another tourist thing we did was ‘Journey Behind the Falls’. We went down an elevator and into a tunnel behind the falls and we could hear the thundering roar of the water going down, which was pretty amazing. We could also walk right out onto a platform behind the fall, so we could get pretty wet from the spray and covered up with these yellow disposable raincoats. Here’s me looking great in my raincoat!

This is one of the spots where you could safely take a photo behind the falls without getting your camera wet. I took a video on my camera here where you can see the water going by. I will post it for you to see when I get back to Australia.

That’s all for now. Stay tuned for more happy snaps from my time at Niagara!

Where I'm staying

While I’m here in Canada, I’m staying with Rebekah at her parents’ house. It’s out in the country and it has nice views.

Here is their house – the bedroom I’m in is upstairs, at the window by itself on the left.

Here’s my room:

Here is some of the bushland near the house:

Horses in the paddock with some farmland in the background:

This is Grace, one of the horses that they have rescued. She was very skinny and in poor condition when they got her and now she is doing very well.

Flight to Canada

Well I made it to Canada safely. My first flight was Melbourne-Los Angeles, then another flight to Toronto. We had two meals on the Qantas flight to LA, but on the American Airlines flight, you had to purchase a meal if you wanted to eat, so I didn’t bother as I had bought something to snack on at the airport in LA.

Here’s a couple of photos of my meals on the plane to LA.

Four cheese ravioli in a wild mushroom sauce, carrot and cherry tomato salad, fig and honey rice pudding, roll and butter, Boost chocolate and Jila mints.

Breakfast was bacon and zucchini frittata with pork sausage, baked beans and Roma tomato, and the extras were fruit salad, orange juice, passionfruit and raspberry muffin, and a cup of tea.

Vintage sewing machine

This is a really nice looking, vintage sewing machine that we saw in the village, still being used.