Leon Turnbull Photography

This is called Little Hawaii Falls, near Manton in northern California. As far as waterfalls go, it is certainly not an exciting one or very interesting. But the greenery around the area is lush and gorgeous, and it definitely reminds one of the lushness of Hawaii.

If the waterfall was flowing at its best, it would certainly be a lot nicer, but it wasn’t and I was definitely expecting it to be flowing a lot better than it was.

Nonetheless, I did not make the trip all the way out to Manton just to see this waterfall. I was looking for some new waterfalls. Unfortunately, I struck out. All the creeks in the area were dry or just trickling. I was very surprised at this, and quite disappointed. It was a very rainy day and I ended up driving on a crazy 4×4 road out in the middle of nowhere. I drove over one unnamed creek flowing over the road (which made me think the other creeks would be flowing very well). That was a bit unnerving driving over because the creek was probably about a foot deep. As I continued, the road got worse and narrower and I thought I was going to get stuck, not able to go forward or backward. I managed to get to a point where I could turn the vehicle around, took a breath, and walked the rest of the way to the dry creek in the rain. Great.