1749 - Paddling up the Niagara River

After a long journey along the north shores of Lake Ontario, we (the Céloron's expedition) are now headed south on the Niagara River to Lake Erie. The Niagara River is unusual in that it flows from the south to the north. It sucks that we always seem to be paddling against the river.

Half way up the river, we ran into the Niagara Falls. While the Falls are quite beautiful, we obviously could not paddle our canoes up the Falls. So we had to carry these HEAVY canoes around the Falls. While exploration may seem exciting looking back from the 21st century, in reality it is just exhausting work. The history books never mention being constantly wet, tired and being bit by mosquitoes.

Had to carry our canoes around this. Ugh.