The pictures don't really come close to telling the entire story. If you walk the full length of the tunnel, you come to a lake. The lake was constructed by the final blasting to open
the tunnel to the falls - but it wasn't from the inside out- the ultimate blasts of confluence were placed by men who incredibly scaled the face of the falls themselves.
Nel and I waded out as far as we could go - Nel's waders were higher than mine, so she went out further, and there I was, standing in the dark, surrounded by the never-ending symphony
of water smashing over the lip of the falls. Just up ahead, I watched sheets of water sweeping across the tunnel end, illuminated in ghostly colours from the lights outside.
I couldn't help but feel I was at the edge of another world- a journey to the center of the earth, the distant tempest a doorway to a twilight land of never-ending rain.
That was confluence. In the coming weeks, it will be sealed, and will disappear from memory and thought, just like the lives of those who selflessly created it. Niagara's greatest
secret will fall into shrouds of memory once more.
The floor immediately under the generator hall.
Where the generators once stood.
Shots from confluence:
Expo report of my original trip:
http://www.ninjito.com/dump/qx-nfe-report.txt
The ever popular and incredible report of dsankt's first descent:
http://sleepycity.net/viewpost.php?b=67
Micro's incredible shots of the final leg of the tailrace to the falls:
http://www.worksongs.com/archives/20...onfluenced.php
Shouts to Siologen - I wish you could have made it in with us, don't hate us too much ;)