All things Niagara Falls tourism…
What a waste! At the corner of Victoria Avenue and Clifton Hill/Centre Street is a pixel board attached to the Classic Iron Motorcycle Museum that has been covered up with a sign. I guess the pixel board broke and they couldn’t be bothered to fix it (too expensive?).
From the Shelbyville Daily Union:
From the pier at Niagara-on-the-Lake, the resting sleek jet boats look like innocent pleasure craft.
But the 24,000-pound powerhouses are capable of carrying 42 passengers weighing up to a total of 7,000 pounds through a stretch of Class Five whitewater currents found at Devil’s Hole Rapids, just below the Niagara Whirlpool.
Pittsburgh resident John Kinney decided to take his love of whitewater adventures to a whole new level when he did his own research and development and came up with the concept of the jet boat. The vessels are able to carry six passengers in each of seven rows at up to 60 mph through the Niagara Gorge to the infamous Niagara Whirlpool, a feature created below the world famous falls, where the river makes an abrupt right hand turn to fashion a massive vortex.
Starting in 1992, Kinney eventually built a fleet of four “wet boats†as well as a “dome boat†covered with Plexiglas that have safely run about 1.5 million passengers up the gorge to the whirlpool and back. In the process, the hour-long, mid-April through mid-October trips have provided passengers with endless thrills and water-soaking adventures.
From Hospitality.net:
It’s summer in Niagara Falls, Canada and the favorite Niagara Falls attractions are back! Recently voted as one of Canada’s Seven Wonders, Niagara Falls offers more than you could imagine.
“This is absolutely amazing,†said an excited Becky Puddicombe, the 17-year-old Westlane Secondary School student who first made the case for her city’s inclusion as a seven wonders on CBC Radio in April.
“The thunder from the water that you hear and feel when you stand by the Falls is so wonderful,†said Edna Mason, a 79-year-old Niagara Falls native. “It is breathtaking, beautiful, and marvelous. And I am so happy.â€
From this world-renowned attraction, to world-class performances, there is something for every member of the family to enjoy in Niagara Falls.
The Niagara Falls Review is reporting what we reported a few weeks ago… Jay Cochrane is coming back to Niagara Falls:
Thrillseekers rejoice. The Jay Cochrane show is back in town.
The world’s oldest and most decorated wirewalker is getting ready for another summer above the city. The 63-year-old Canadian showman will walk a tightrope near the Skylon Tower twice a day, starting June 30.
It marks Cochrane’s third summer in six years in Niagara Falls, and follows a record-setting performance two years ago when he walked a wire from the Niagara Fallsview Casino hotel to the Skylon Tower - the longest and highest wirewalk ever attempted in North America.
This time, the North Bay-born ‘Prince of the Air’ will walk between two specially constructed 20-storey towers near the Fallsview area and Skylon Tower.
“I want to do something more intimate,” he said Thursday, in town to scout locations. “Kind of like what I did the first time.”
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