At 8:30am a car arrives outside Union Station and shuttles me over to the point where the tour bus leaves from. The driver notices I'm from Australia and we start up a conversation as I find out he used to live in Perth. The two to my left in the car are from Quebec and I get the first close up of the French Canadian accent.
We change to the bus and start on the journey, 2 hours and a toilet stop later we arrive at Niagara Falls and I realise it's actually a much bigger town than I expected. I assumed it was going to be more like a national park, I assumed wrong. It was a rather large town with a number of attractions other than the falls.
Niagara is right on the boarder. One side of the river is Canada, the other is the United States. I think Canada had the better view!
There are two boat cruises running, one from either side so you do don't have to cross the boarder. We take the Canadian boat and head into the falls. They provide everyone with poncho's and as we get closer I now understand why, the spray would be enough for me to have a shower in.
After the boat ride we had two hours to look around town which was a good opportunity to walk up to the falls and take some photos and grab a bite to eat.
We then headed off to a nearby town called 'Niagara on the lake' for a look around, we only had about 45 mins and I think I could have spent half a day there. It was your typical country town main street like you would see in Australia and some of the shops were really good, alas I bought a few things walked around and quickly made the bus in time for it to leave.
The next and final stop was at a winery in the Niagara area for some tasting. We tried three wines, one of which Dan Akroyd had lent his name to.
Once back in town with the tour over I walk over to the CN Tower to visit the observation deck and get a birds eye view of Toronto.
The tower was originally designed as a communications/broadcast tower for the Ottowa area and it was only late in the design that they considered adding a viewing deck and restaurant. It makes sense they did, its currently the tallest tower in the world and a pretty popular tourist attraction.
I arrive just on nightfall so get a great view of the sunsetting across the city.
The ballgame is again on tonight at Rogers and with the CN Tower right next to the stadium you get a pretty good view down to the game. The players look like ants running between bases.
They also have a glass floor section where you can look straight down, not for the faint hearted.
I then meet up with Warren and his housemate for dinner and the day long day comes to a close.
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