BGuthrie Photos: NY -- Niagara Falls -- Maid of the Mist

NY -- Niagara Falls -- Maid of the Mist:

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MOMIST_071022_067.JPG: Note the people walking in the distance. I thought this was an optional way to walk back to the entrance but it turns out to dead end right in the worst part of the wash. Quite fun though.
2. MOMIST_071022_122.JPG: The guys in the yellow raincoats are doing the Cave of the Winds tour. Frankly, I don't think that option is as cool as some of the others but it's drier than most because the wind usually blows away from the falls and you don't get soaked.
3. MOMIST_071022_163.JPG: The first appearance of rainbows on the boat trip
4. MOMIST_071022_193.JPG: The folks over there are part of the Journey Behind the Falls tour. Note the publicity banner for it.
5. MOMIST_071022_211.JPG: Note the double rainbow
6. MOMIST_071022_249.JPG: Maid of the Mist trip @ Niagara Falls
7. MOMIST_071022_355.JPG: Prospect Point From Below: The rocks of the Niagara Gorge are sedimentary, formed at the bottom of the ancient seas from sank, silt, clay, and prehistoric animal remains. All of these rock layers are exposed at the edge of the Niagara Encampment near Lewiston. Because of the gradual dip of the rocks in this region to the south, only the top layers are exposed at the falls. Lockport Dolostone, this hard, resistant caprock of the falls, has a network of vertical and horizontal fractures known as joints. Beneath the dolostone is the Rochester Shale, a much softer layer with vertical fractures. As water flows over and through the dolostone into the shale, the shale is weakened and removed by a process called "sapping." The dolostone is left with no support and eventually falls. The rocks below the American Falls and Bridal Veil Falls are known as talus. They have been breaking off and piling up beneath the falls for the past 900 years. There is not enough water from the falls to erode these rocks away. Secondary, the talus will reach the top, forming steep rapids instead of falls. On July 28, 1954, the largest single rockfall ever recorded at Niagara Falls took place when 185,000 tons of rock from the edge of the falls and Prospect Point above collapsed into the gorge. A few weeks later, work began to remove a large section of rock overhang left from the rockfall. The falls viewing area above reopened to the public in November 1954.
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Wikipedia Description: Maid of the Mist
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Maid of the Mist is a boat tour of Niagara Falls. (The actual boats used are each named Maid of the Mist, followed by a different Roman numeral in each case.) The boat starts off at a calm part of the Niagara River, near the Rainbow Bridge, and takes its passengers past the American and Bridal Veil Falls, then into the dense mist of spray inside the curve of the Horseshoe Falls. The tour is available starting from either the Canadian or U.S. side of the river, returning to the starting point in each case.

All passengers receive a blue Maid of the Mist poncho.

History:

The first Maid of the Mist was launched in 1846 as a ferry service between the Canadian and American sides, pre-dating by two years the construction of the first suspension bridge at the site. However, with the opening of the Whirlpool Rapids Bridge further downriver in 1848, the ferry service lost business, and by 1854, became a tourist attraction instead with the launch of a more luxurious boat.

Financial difficulties and the impending American Civil War forced the boat to be sold to a Montreal firm in 1860, and formal service was not restored until 1893, when two new boats were constructed and launched under a new partnership, Maid of the Mist Steamboat Company. These boats sailed the lower river until April 22, 1955, when they burned in a pre-season accident. Later that year, they would be replaced by the type and style of boat still seen today.

The Maid of the Mist is well known for its role in the July 9, 1960 rescue of Roger Woodward, a seven-year old boy who became the first person to survive a plunge over the Horseshoe Falls with nothing but a life jacket. The boat involved in the rescue (known as Maid II) was retired from service in 1983 and relocated to the Amazon River, where it served as a missionary ship for years after.

Access to the river-level attraction on the United States side was provided by the Maid of the Mist Incline Railway, a funicular railway, between 1894 and 1991 to travel between street level and the boat dock. As this service proved increasingly inadequate in transporting the growing passenger base of the 1990s, four high-speed elevators replaced the railway by the start of the 1991 tourist season. On the Canadian side, the dock is reached walking down a ramp to river level.
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