*Update April 9, 2018*
We’ve added a video to our YouTube channel featuring the sights of Elora. We’d love it if you’d check it out here: Elora Ontario Driving Tour.
We’ve featured images and video of Elora, Ontario before. Just thought we’d visit the town’s most important natural feature, the Tooth of Time. The Grand was unusually swollen on this late July day from heavy rain upstream.
The plan had originally been the wade, swim and crawl to get to the base of the waterfall. The heavy, silty water made that all but impossible. The waterfall is popular with Kayakers and there are some great POV videos on YouTube of these folks going down the chute.
Tooth Of Time In Elora, Ontario
Signalling the start of the Elora Gorge, a mini-canyon along the Grand River, the Tooth of Time is a rock that resisted erosion. It is now fortified by cement on its upstream side to prevent future collapse.
If you really stop and use your imagination, you can picture what a great waterfall may have existed before the land gave way on either side of this rock that refused to let go.
A straight on view of the Tooth of Time waterfall, and access to the base of the waterfall, is a tough task. As mentioned, the waterfall empties into the Elora Gorge. At the point of the base of the falls, the sheer walls of the gorge meet directly with the water.
Not far past this location, within the Elora Gorge Conservation Area, river tubing is very popular. Check out this HD Video of tubers battling the roughest stretch of rapids: Elora Gorge Tubing.
The power of the Grand River was used by the Elora Mill for a long period of time. The Mill is under renovations and part of a revitalization project that will see retail and condominiums line the banks of the Grand. Images, like the one above, may not be possible in a few years unless from the window of one of these new homes.
This image is taken from the south bank of the Grand River on property that used to belong to the Little Folks Compand and the Kiddie Kar Factory. Demolition on the factory foundations is fully underway.
Looking upstream from the Tooth of Time. The pillars in the foreground once belonged to a walking bridge across the Grand River that, I believe, will come alive once again in the new revitalization plans.
The following HD Video was taken on the same day as the images. It wasn’t the planned angles but still shows what the Tooth of Time in Elora is all about. Be sure to switch the highest resolution setting and be sure to hit the ‘Like’ button!
Tooth Of Time Waterfall Video
