One of the main features of Toronto seems to be - that it doesn’t have a lot of main features.  There’s the CN Tower, at which we dined last time we were in the city.  And there’s the waterfront, which we visited this time.  But otherwise the topography is pretty flat (at least to the eyes of this westerner.)

But an hour and a bit away is a pretty amazing feature - the gigantic Niagra Falls.  We scooted down there after WSDL Interop work one evening and enjoyed watching dusk and then night drop slowly over the falls.  We kept to the WSDL tower theme by eating dinner in the revolving restaurant in a nearby miniature (but still quite impressive) of the CN Tower.  Photos here.

What impressed me from the dry west, is the sheer volume of water (202,000 ft³/sec) plunging over the precipice.  The only comparable river out west is probably the Columbia (262,000 ft³/sec).  Even the Colorado (70,000 ft³/sec mean) which sustains half the West Coast is pretty modest in comparison.