{"id":12313,"date":"2018-12-20T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=12313"},"modified":"2018-10-05T17:24:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T17:24:42","slug":"niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.towingsilver.com\/?p=12313","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

This wasn’t\u00a0my first visit to Niagara Falls – far from it!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I remember this trip to Niagara Falls in the winter. Dad walked my brother, Craig, and me over to Luna Island. My notes have it as 1962, but brother Scott was born in 1961, so maybe it was in 1961 or 1963. Maybe Scott was with Mom, as I know<\/strong><\/em> Mom didn’t walk over with us. I can just hear her saying, “Oof da! George!”<\/p>\n

But, this was the first time I visited with Kathy and Dennis and their kids, John, Teresa, Paul and Paul’s\u00a0wife, Amber. We were all in town at the same time and we set off on an adventure.<\/p>\n

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This is the typical touristic image of Niagara Falls. The Horseshoe Falls is to the right of Goat Island and the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls to the left.<\/p>\n

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I find it amazing to consider that just about all the water in the Great Lakes eventually passes through this straight.<\/p>\n

Fun Fact to Know and Share: The Niagara River isn’t really a river. It is a straight<\/a>. \u00a0A strait is a naturally formed, narrow, typically navigable waterway that connects two larger bodies of water. The two larger bodies of water, in this case, are Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. While a straight is “typically navigable” isn’t easy to see why this one isn’t – navigable, that is.<\/p>\n

Fun Fact Number Two: Niagara Falls State Park<\/a> is the oldest continually operated state park in the nation. It began operation in 1885.<\/p>\n

Our mission on this trip was to visit the Three Sisters Islands, part of the park that extends out into the river, on the side of Goat Island that faces Canada.<\/p>\n

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We carpooled over – with such a large group, we needed more than one car – and found a place to park.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve never been seen the Falls from this angle, I highly recommend it. I was one of the first places I went after I got my driver’s license. Even though we made repeated trips to the Falls when we were kids, I could never get my folks to go explore this part of the park<\/a>.<\/p>\n