Happy New Year!
My first post of 2009 is a waterfall of course. I wanted to get back to Burney Falls while there was still snow there, so I managed to talk my friend Brian into going there with me, even though he had been to Burney twice in the past two weeks. It probably wouldn’t have been his first choice. Indeed, he wanted me to take him to a couple different waterfall locations, both of which were on private property. I’m not keen on trespassing, but I took him anyway to see we could find any legal access to those waterfalls. Instead, we found lots of brand new fencing and no trespassing signs (and surveillance cameras!). It is definitely a huge bummer when once accessible scenic locations (such as waterfalls) are no longer accessible to the public because owners no longer permit access to those locations (sometimes illegally too).
Anyway, it was off to Burney Falls for us instead. It was very cold, and we were the only ones out and about this morning at the park. Unfortunately, it would have been better to have been at Burney Falls right after the last snow storm when there was still snow on the rocks and trees. We did see three river otters near the bottom of the falls, which was very neat. They were very curious looking up at me to see what I was doing. But as soon as I took out my camera to photograph them, poof, they were gone.
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