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1. BEHIND_071022_003.JPG: Table Rock Point: First opened in 1899, this attraction was formerly called "Behind the Sheet" and the "Scene Tunnels". This complex was named "Table Rock" after a ledge of rock that used to jut out by the brink of the Falls. After several great rock falls, the remaining "Table Rock" ledge was blasted off in 1935 to ensure the safety of visitors. The elevator shaft descending 38 meters (125 feet) was originally blasted in 1903 and was expanded for two elevators in 1925. The tunnels you are using today were blasted in 1944.
2. BEHIND_071022_005.JPG: Miracle at Niagara: The only person to unintentionally go over the Falls and survive was young Roger Woodward. After a boating accident on July 9, 1960, the 7-year-old was swept over the Falls wearing only a life jacket and a swimsuit. The crew of the Maid of the Mist II rescued Roger, pulling him unharmed from the churning water. Roger's 17-year-old sister Deanne was pulled from the river above the falls by two onlookers and the driver of their boat, Jim Honeycutt, lost his life in the tragic event.
3. BEHIND_071022_014.JPG: Journey Of the Falls: The Falls was not always located here at Table Rock Point. The Falls has been on a slow journey south, moving 11 kilometers (7 miles) from its original position at the Niagara Escarpment near the present-day Village of Queenston. Niagara carried 20% of the world's fresh water, flowing from four of the Great Lakes. Traveling at 75 kilometers (40 miles) per hour, the water's speed and huge volume had immense erosive power. The brink of the Falls moved up to 3 meters (10 feet) every year until twentieth century engineering intervened to slow the rate down to only 30 centimeters (1 foot) every 10 years.
4. BEHIND_071022_028.JPG: Erosion of the Falls: Today, the volume of water flowing along the Niagara is controlled for industry and hydro-electric power generation, slowing erosion to only 30 centimeters (1 foot) every 10 years. During summer daylight hours, an incredible 154 million liters (34 million gallons) flows over the brink of the Falls every minute. That's enough to fill 1 million bathtubs!
5. BEHIND_071022_043.JPG: A view from a portal. We're actually below the falls now. The view's not that spectacular but they have two of these portals for you to look through.
6. BEHIND_071022_050.JPG: Journey of the Falls: The Falls was not always located here at Table Rock Point. The Falls has been on a slow journey south, moving 11 kilometers (7 miles) from its original position at the Niagara Escarpment near the present-day Village of Queenston. Niagara carries 20% of the world's fresh water, flowing from four of the Great Lakes. Traveling at 65 kilometers (40 miles0 per hour, the water's speed and huge volume had immense erosive power. The brink of the Falls moved up to 3 meters (10 feet) every year until twentieth century engineering intervened to slow the rate down to only 30 centimeters (1 foot) ??? years.
7. BEHIND_071022_054.JPG: The Power of Niagara: For millennia, man has been fascinated by the overwhelming power of the Falls. Since 1958, Sir Adam Beck Generating Station No. 2 has captured that potential energy in one of Ontario's largest and most reliable hydro-electric facilities. It's a wonderful example of a nature, non-polluting and reliable power source that has worked in harmony with the beauty of Niagara for over four decades. Guided tours will give you a glimpse into the history of the region's power development and will reveal the unique ways the natural splendor of Niagara and hydro-electric generation have existed in harmony. Chair of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission (now Ontario Hydro) from 1909-1925, Adam Beck built and expanded this public utility into the largest publicly owned power authority in the world.
8. BEHIND_071022_061.JPG: Power Generation: The building to the lower left, along the bank of the river, is the Ontario Power Generating Station. Built in 1905, it has been out of service since 1999. The round building in Queen Victoria Park that is used today as the Illumination Tower, was the surge tank for this power facility.
9. BEHIND_071022_068.JPG: Rainbow Bridge: The Rainbow Bridge is a symbol of friendship, connecting Canada and the United States of America. Niagara is North America's only bi-national natural attraction, joining two countries that share the world's longest peaceful border.
10. BEHIND_071022_075.JPG: Natural Wonder: About 500 other waterfalls in the world are higher than Niagara, but many of the tallest falls have little water flowing over them. It is the impressive combination of great width and huge volume of water that makes Niagara a natural wonder like no other.
11. BEHIND_071022_088.JPG: Honeymoon Bridge Collapse: In winter, ice carried from the Great Lakes can become trapped in the lower gorge. It is forced up out of the water and freezes into a huge mass creating an "ice bridge" that in years past could be as high as a ten-story building. The ice bridge spans the river from shore to shore and usually forms in mid-January and last until April. In 1937, the immense strength of this ice bridge caused the Upper Steel Arch (Honeymoon) bridge to collapse. Since 1964, an ice boom has been installed at Lake Erie to prevent ice floes from entering the Niagara River, reducing the size of the ice bridge and decreasing the amount of damage along the shore.
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Wikipedia Description: Journey Behind the Falls
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Journey Behind the Falls (known until the early 1990s as the Scenic Tunnels) is an attraction in Niagara Falls, Ontario located in the Table Rock Center beside the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. It is open year round and run by the Niagara Parks Commission.

Journey consists of an observation platform and series of tunnels near the bottom of the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian shore of the Niagara River. The tunnels and platform can be reached by elevators from the street level entrance. The tour is unguided and visitors have the option of using radios to receive facts and information broadcast into the tunnels

The two tunnels extend approximately 46 metres behind the waterfall and allow visitors to view water cascading in front of the open cave entrances. Earlier in the attraction's history visitors were permitted far closer to the portals' edge to view a perspective to the sides and below the falling water. Barricades now exist further back from the ledge at the end of the tunnels to ensure visitor safety.

The observation deck provides a vantage point looking up with the falls to the right, allowing photographers a full view of the famous landmark. The deck is sprayed with water from the cascade so visitors are provided with plastic raincoats prior to their descent.
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2007 photos: Equipment this year: I used the Fuji S9000 almost exclusively except for the period when it broke and I had to send it back for repairs. In August, I bought a Canon Rebel Xti, my first digital SLR (vs regular digital) which I tried as well but I wasn't that excited by it. Trips this year: Two weeks down south (including Graceland, Shiloh, VIcksburg, and New Orleans), a week at a time share in Costa Rica over my 50th birthday, a week off for a family reunion in the Wisconsin Dells (with sidetrips to Dayton, Springfield, and Madison), a week in San Diego for the Comic-Con with a side trip to Michigan for two family reunions, a drive up to Niagara Falls, a couple of weekend jaunts including the Civil War Preservation Trust Grand Review in Vicksburg, and a December journey to three state capitols (Richmond, Raleigh, and Columbia). I saw sites in 18 states and 3 other countries this year -- the first year I'd been to more than two other countries since we lived in Venezuela when I was a little toddler. Ego strokes: A photo that I took at the National Archives was used as the author photo on the book jacket for David A. Nichols' "A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution." I became a volunteer photographer at both Sixth and I Historic Synagogue and the Civil War Preservation Trust (later renamed "Civil War Trust").. Number of photos taken this year: 225,000.
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