Two Waterfall Adventure

For 20 years, the Rotary Club of Picton has hosted a waterfall tour in support of Rotary projects. Today was our second visit and it started off wonderfully with balloons welcoming us to Colborne where we picked up a muffin and croissant for lunch. If you have never been to The Counter on King, you are missing out on some of the best baking in the county.

The first waterfall was at Cape Vesey, 3718 County Road 8 and as we walked down, down, down to the base of the falls, I took note of the many beautiful mosses along the way. Note to self: stop and take pictures on our way back up.

Arriving at the base of the first waterfall, if you just see the stream, it looks pretty and...

... if you zoom in, you see cool eddies.

But, if you swivel your head to the left and have never been there before, you can't help but gasp.

I heard quite a few gasps.

Visitors rotated up to the falls civilly so that everyone could get a good picture with their families and friends.

When the stream gets closer to Lake Ontario, it settles out into a marshland....

..... cattails were getting ready to loosen their seeds to begin a new growing season.

Ever the planner, Ted brought a hiking stick to help him make his way up the steep trail back to the truck.

And, we stopped here and there to look at the limestone layers with their many fossils...

....and the oh-so-cool mosses that made it feel like we were in another world.

Ted remembered that just east of the site of the first waterfall, you can see THE stream that becomes the waterfall. You'd never know that such a tiny stream can become so majestic in a few hundred metres.

The second waterfall was at Jackson Falls, 1749 County Road 17 and the hike down was equally as steep as the first one. The cool thing about this waterfall is that you get to see glimpses of it as you make your way to the bottom.

This falls has a different feel - you get to cross the stream stepping from rock to rock and there is a light mist in the air.

Don't you just love the tiny boot hanging out of this gentleman's backpack? Nothing like exposing your kids to the wonders of nature at an early age.

Group pictures were taken....

.... and everyone got to admire the falls up close.

Do you see the remnants of an ice wall behind the falls? As a kid growing up in Prince Edward County, there were two waterfalls within a two mile walk from our home. Some years conditions were perfect for the falls to form an ice room that clung to the rock. It was fun to walk into that ice room and experience the back of the falls. Not sure if our parents even knew where we were at the time. Times were different then.

More mosses were admired...

.... as we made our way up, up, up to the road.

Beautiful mosses.

And, in the over 1 km line of vehicles parked along the road, some very perturbed rubber duckies wondered why they weren't allowed to swim in that wonderful stream. They look pretty miffed to me.

The owners of this vehicle said that it all started with one friend giving them one rubber duckie and......

..... maybe they will escape tonight and have an adventure on their own.

This post has been sponsored by John Prine's "I Remember Everything". It is one of the songs that were playing as I edited these pictures. I am thankful to have been able to visit these waterfalls again with my favourite hiking buddy.

I remember everything, things I can't forget

The way you turned and smiled on me on the night that we first met

And I remember every night your ocean eyes of blue

I miss you in the morning light like roses miss the dew