Day 8 - Niagara Falls, Ontario to Altoona, PA

The time is going way too fast, wish I could s-l-o-w it down.  We were really sad to be leaving Canada today as we have really enjoyed our short stay here.  Definitely want to see more of it in the future.

Time to move on

We checked out of our hotel and headed to the falls for one last look before driving to the Peace Bridge and back into America. 

We were on that boat yesterday!

One last look at the majestic sight

Over the Peace Bridge

We had a long drive ahead of us to Altoona. 

Stopped off at Dave and Bev’s diner, a fabulous homely little diner in a small town called Ellington.  Bev was so friendly and was really interested to hear about our travels. 

To break up the journey we stopped off to find an old cache in Pennsylvania – it was a bit worrying as there were signs warning about wearing orange hi-viz in the hunting season.

– A quick google and as we suspected it is actually the hunting season right now so we dug around in the bags and found our yellow hi-viz, oh well better than no hi-viz at all at least we wouldn’t be mistaken for deer.  I was a bit worried about snakes too so made sure I stamped along as much as I could and used a whacking stick to scare any that might have been lurking under the bushes.

Ohio

Then it was back on the road stopping off to find a cache in Ohio and checking in at our Motel in Altoona about 9pm.

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Day 7 - Niagara Falls, Ontario

Today is the first day we’ve been able to relax a little as we are staying for two nights at Niagara Falls.

This morning we visited the Niagara Power Project Visitors Center – which is back on the US side. We'd planned to go there yesterday before crossing in to Canada but ran out of time. Luckily the toll is only payable one way and even then it's only $3.50us.  It was really interesting and we were really lucky as we more or less had the place to ourselves – I expect it gets very busy at peak times.

Great fun in the Visitor Centre

View from the Power Plant

This is the first day of rain we’ve had, we can’t complain too much as up until now the weather has been fantastic.

EC in the rain

Back on the Canadian side we popped into a supermarket for some supplies and this we saw lots of unusual fruit and veg, it was nice to finally find fresh produce instead of mostly pre-packed in America.  Also everything seemed quite a bit cheaper.

Sugar Cane

Sending Postcards

We’ve seen some interesting wildlife too – in America we saw lots of chipmunks, plenty of raccoons but sadly only road-kill raccoons and in Canada we’ve seen loads of black squirrels and this evening we went out to play a Wherigo and I saw a skunk!  Sadly it was too dark to get a decent pic.

47.3 miles