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OFFICIAL BLOG OF NIAGARA FALLS TOURISM |
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NIAGARA SUNRISE
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2008-11-19 09:14:54
|  | 3 comments Latest by Darline 11/20/08 21:59:59 EST |
This morning I grabbed my camera and headed off at 6 am walking to the falls (it’s about a 20 minute walk for me) to capture, what I think, is one of Niagara’s best kept secrets: the sun rising in the east over Niagara. Okay, lots of cities talk about great sunsets but few about great sunrises. Ours in Niagara Falls, Ontario should get the red ribbon. I’ve attached one of the photos I took to make my point.
There are several others benefits to looking at Niagara as the day comes alive. There are few people (if any) around. You can personably own Niagara and with the exception of the sound of the water rushing over Niagara Falls, it’s quiet. A rarity in this hectic world around us. If there are others there, conversation is easy. I’ve ended up having a coffee later in the morning with people from all over the world. This morning it was with a man and a woman out jugging from Germany.
I remember years ago getting a request from an assistant of Lech Walesa, President of Poland from 1990 to 1995, to take him to the falls to do what I have been doing for years at all times of the year...look at the sun rise over Niagara. I picked him up at his hotel just the two of us (yes, just the two of us… no security or hangers on), and I left him to have his own
Niagara experience alone at the brink of the falls. We didn’t talk, because he didn’t speak English and Polish isn’t in my vocabulary. His assistant later told me it was one of the best experiences of his life. I could see it on the expression on his face when we got back in the car. If you need some sunrise in your life, you now know where to find it.
George
Comments
Betty Zyvatkauskas
Few sights are more compelling that water pouring over the brink of the falls. I love this shot. Great blog, George! Please post more of these fabulous photos.
George bailey
Betty, Thanks for the note. I'll e-mail you the sunrise shot. George
Darline
Great photo...` Sun rises and Falls`.
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