NIAGARA FALLS

What can be said but wow and then some.
We stayed at the falls last night and have just driven through Gettysburg and the battle field.  This huge area is a national monument and receives millions of visitors per year.
But first the falls and the best part is that we are back there again next Tuesday.
We explored around the Canadian side and paid to do the Journey behind the falls tour which was just great.  They built a tunnel behind the Horseshoe falls that is 650m long andthis is about one third of the width of the falls. There is an observation deck down beside the falls and boy do you need the raincoat!! But the power of that water is awesome.The water is flowing at 40mph over the falls and supplies 20 per cent of the worlds fresh water.  There are 4 power stations on the Niagara river with two each in Canada and the USA.  After leaving the observation deck you enter the tunnel and then there are two more 'viewing' areas where you can look out at the back of the falls.  The sound is as if you were standing in a tunnel with a train passing over the top...... constantly.
The mist from the falls rises and wets you even as you walk along away from the viewing area.
At night we could see the coloured lights playing on the American falls from our hotel room window so how special was that. The fact that it waas nearly 10pm before it was dark was a minor detail it was worth waiting up for. We had anearly morning today (leave at 6.55am) so a late night was not really needed but you had to watch the lights. They turn the falls into a rainbow and then the colours slowly change, and this goes on for a couple of hours.
We had an early start to try and beat the holdup at the USA border so we were bus number 2 in line instead of about number 6. Takes the best part of half an hour to get a bus load through.