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Mar 14, 2012
Taylor Creek Park
Unmistakable beauty in the Spring time. Especially after being cooped up over the winter, it's like everything is seen for the first time. You oil your bike chain, tighten the bike bolts and pump the air in your bike tires and before long you're riding the familiar trails and it's as if winter never happened. For those glorious daytime hours you feel like young and carefree. Yes, nothing beats the first real taste of spring.
Mar 11, 2012
Devils Punch Bowl- Hamilton
The Devil's Punchbowl (previously known as "the HorseShoe Falls") dates back to over 450 million years ago! Originally materials from the Niagara escarpment were deposited in a large inland sea. About 1 million years ago the area was subjected to 4 ice ages and following the end of the last ice ages there were very high water levels and this is what created the details of landscape of the punchbowl. One of the streams crashed over the escarpment at Stoney Creek carving what has now become the Devils Punchbowl. Not the loveliest of waterfalls as the flow has been greatly reduced, but the Devil's punchbowl is an historical landmark and fascinated visitors and geologist year round.

The Devil's
Punch Bowl Falls has quite a history to it. Like all history, some
facts are fascinating while others can be tragic. The Devil's Punch
Bowl is located in Stoney Creek. Believe it or not, about a hundred
years ago, it was called the "Horseshoe Falls" because of its round
concave gorge. Of course now we know the Horseshoe Falls, as the
Niagara Falls in Canada. The Devil's Punch Bowl received its name
possibly around the time of the prohibition when 'moonshine' was made in
the area.
Historically, there have been numerous tragedies of suicides into the gorge from various points surrounding the bowl over the years.
There are legends and myths that also surround the Devil's Punch Bowl. Poems have been written for the 'Cross on the Hill", by Emily Lawrence.
High on the mountain, the site has a lookout with amazing views of Lake Ontario, Stoney Creek Castle, the Skyway Bridge and the Hamilton Harbour to name a few.
The main attraction though is the falls which comes from the Stoney Creek and cascades down a 37 metre drop into the Punch bowl. Like most waterfalls there are two separate falls, the Upper and Lower. The lower falls is a 6 metre 'classical' fall.
While peering down into the gorge, it almost seems endless with spectacular rock and shale formation of textures and colors. This site is a major tourist attraction in the Niagara Escarpment and well worth the trip!


Historically, there have been numerous tragedies of suicides into the gorge from various points surrounding the bowl over the years.
There are legends and myths that also surround the Devil's Punch Bowl. Poems have been written for the 'Cross on the Hill", by Emily Lawrence.
High on the mountain, the site has a lookout with amazing views of Lake Ontario, Stoney Creek Castle, the Skyway Bridge and the Hamilton Harbour to name a few.
The main attraction though is the falls which comes from the Stoney Creek and cascades down a 37 metre drop into the Punch bowl. Like most waterfalls there are two separate falls, the Upper and Lower. The lower falls is a 6 metre 'classical' fall.
While peering down into the gorge, it almost seems endless with spectacular rock and shale formation of textures and colors. This site is a major tourist attraction in the Niagara Escarpment and well worth the trip!
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