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Niagara Falls is a short excursion from Toronto, an easy day trip. 

Unfortunately, we got caught up in an interminable traffic queue, waiting to cross the US border, one car every ten minutes, or so it seemed.  If I hadn't left the road and taken off over the grass we'd be there still (it was a fully insured rental). 

We've both been to Niagara before, in pervious lives, and as we've just been to Victoria Falls (see here...) and earlier been to Iguassu (see here...), we knew what to expect.  But we like big waterfalls, they still impress us, up close and personal. 

In this case, it's a great lake pouring over a cliff. Spectacular. If you haven't been - go.

 

 

What didn't impress was the crush of people, pushing in front and waving an arm across the lens, pointing, just as you took a photo. The world is definitely getting ridiculously overcrowded.  In the end, we didn't stay long and set out for Kingston, well before dark, ready for our drive to Ottawa the next day.

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Travel

Canada and the United States - Part2

 

 

In Part1, in July 2023, Wendy and I travelled north from Los Angeles to Seattle, Washington, and then Vancouver, in Canada, from where we made our way east to Montreal.

In Part2, in August 2023, we flew from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, down to Miami, Florida, then Ubered to Fort Lauderdale, where we joined a western Caribbean cruise.

At the end of the cruise, we flew all the way back up to Boston.

From Boston we hired another car to drive, down the coast, to New York.

After New York we flew to Salt Lake City, Nevada, then on to Los Angeles, California, before returning to Sydney.

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Fiction, Recollections & News

The Password

 

 

 

 

How I miss Rio.  Rio de Janeiro the most stunningly picturesque city on Earth with its dark green mountains and generous bays, embelezado with broad white, sandy beaches.  Rio forever in my heart.   Rio my a minha pátria, my homeland, where I spent the most wonderful days of my life with linda, linda mãe, my beautiful, beautiful mother. Clambering up Corcovado Mountain together, to our favela amongst the trees.

Thinking back, I realise that she was not much older than I was, maybe fifteen years.  Who knows?

Her greatest gift to me was English. 

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Opinions and Philosophy

Whither Peak Oil

 

 

The following paper was written back in 2007.  Since that time the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) struck and oil prices have not risen as projected.  But we are now hearing about peak oil again and there have been two programmes on radio and TV in the last fortnight floating the prospect of peak oil again. 

At the end of 2006 the documentary film A Crude Awakening warned that peak oil, ‘the point in time when the maximum rate of petroleum production is reached, after which the rate of production enters its terminal decline’, is at hand. 

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