Canada 2019 - Day 18 - Niagara Falls to St. Catherines

August 3 - Saturday
Niagara Falls to St. Catherines

It looks like a cloud but it is the mist from the falls! Our strategy for today is to get out of town before the tourists get done with breakfast. Weekends are supposed to be even busier than the last 2 days have been.

Needed to say goodbye to the dinosaurs on our way out. 

Love these bike racks at the Rosberg Family Park.

There were bike racks and a repair station in front of the Ten Thousand Buddhas Sarira Stupa too.

The Niagara River Whirlpools Aero Car.

And another bike repair station! The Niagara Region is definitely bike friendly.

This is where all those helicopter rides start....forgot to mention that they go over the falls almost as frequently as the boats go by them.

Sculpture at the entry to the Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens and School of Horticulture.

The artist used the sheer rock walls of the river gorge as inspiration.

We are standing on the Sir Adam Beck dam looking across the river at the dam on the US side of the river. How does this work?

The Floral Clock (adjacent to the dam) was very quiet when we arrived.

Then three tour buses pulled in.

Roy Terrace marks where they think Niagara Falls were about 12,000 years ago when the glaciers receded. We are 8 miles from where we started this morning.

Got photo bombed by another bicyclist.

This tiny chapel is next to Walkers Country Market where we stopped for lunch.

Notice the back of his shirt and the boxes of peaches that he worked on almost the whole time we were there.

The market had everything that we needed - food, restrooms, water for our bottles, tables and chairs in the shade, AND fresh strawberry rhubarb tarts for dessert.

The path was a busy place for walkers and bikers on this beautiful summer day.

In Niagara On The Lake checking out the Fort George National Historic Site, another landmark from the War of 1812.

The Niagara River is history for us now too.

A Boy Scout gathering at Butler's Barracks National Historic Site, a half mile down the trail.

Another way to pedal.

This vineyard gate made a good resting spot for Doug to check out his bike which is making a funny noise.

Donna checked out the grapes. And the Law of Driveways was at work as the owner drove in while we were there. (It happens to us a LOT.)

A different vineyard provides us with our first view of Lake Ontario.

Crossing the Welland Canal at Lock #1.

We rode our bikes to St. Denis for the evening mass. It is a big church but very simple inside.

Seemed quite appropriate that we would be going to church in a town names St. Catherines