Spring Waterfalls are the Best!

 Hullo, today I am going for a little hike to check out one of my favourite waterfalls.

There are a set of dams here that used to provide water for the city (back in the day) and for the coal mines (back in the day). There's been all sorts of uproar in the last few years about the dams being an earthquake risk, cause if they ever failed... there'd be a wave of water that would wash away houses and people. So far... the dams are still here!

That's cause people like the little lakes above the dams! You can go swimming or fishing or just sit and stare at the water on a misty morning.

We came here a LOT during Covid, cause there are picnic tables where you can sit and journal or eat a chocolate brownie (ahem).

Someone has been carving little wooden owls and leaving them tucked between tree branches.

Lots of little owls!

Too many to take pictures of...

Alright... let's go find us some waterfalls!

Well, that's new. They have a fishing line recycling station, which is a BEARY good idea!

Alright, here's the overflow... and if we follow it down...

We come to this waterfall! It's pretty impressive. And in the summer, it's only a tiny trickle...

Now we'll wander up through the forest.

I love this forest... all the ferns and the cedars... and the mist makes it a bit mysterious.

This is my favourite part... all these boulders tumbled down...

You could almost think you were in Middle Earth...

Then we walk along the walkway...

And up some stairs...

And then under the highway...

Ooh... the creek is really flowing well!

We're almost there!

Whew... there is a lot of spray coming off of it!

And you can barely hear yourself think!

And yes, this was the stuffie olympics waterfall... when the water was barely a trickle!

Let's see if I can find a pic...

Yep... waterflow was practically nothing back then... and in the summers.

A spring stuffie olympics here would be beary different...

I'm not sure I'd even do it...

The current might grab our little barrels and whirl us away, never to be seen again. Yeah... no... not doing that!