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Ajay Shekhawat: Pictures from June 16, 2003 (3 pictures)



Toronto, as seen from the Ft Niagara State Park beach. In front of the city is a freighter on its way (via Quebec and St Lawrence seaway) to the Atlantic Ocean. If you've never seen it before, checkout the Welland Canal just across the border in Canada, where they raise (or lower) these ocean-going freighters to the height of Niagara Falls via a system of 7 locks. As an engineer, I found it quite fascinating :-) Toronto also has the best skyline of any of the big cities. The CN Tower and the financial district combined give it a very unique shape.
Ft. Niagara State Park beach on the shores of Lake Ontario. On a clear day in summer, you get the most gorgeous sunsets on the lake. If it is a calm day, there is nothing like coming here with your S.O. and watching a romantic sunset. Of course, it's a 35 minute drive from my place, but when you're with your S.O., 35 minutes are nothing. Which reminds me of an old joke that I heard: An old Jewish man reads about Einstein's theory of relativity in the newspaper and asks his scientist grandson to explain it to him. 'Well, zayda, it's sort of like this. Einstein says that if you're having your teeth drilled, a minute seems like an hour. But if you're sitting with a beautiful woman on your lap, an hour seems like a minute.' The old man considers this profound bit of thinking for a moment and asks incredulously, 'And he gets paid for this?'
Toronto, viewed from the Ft. Niagara State Park beach. It is about 30 miles as the crow flies. The interesting thing is: when you are at the top of the beach, you can see the shorter buildings in Toronto. When you walk down to the water's edge, the shorter buildings are no longer visible. The earth's curvature is perceptible!


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