Leon Turnbull Photography

After visiting Little Roaring Creek Falls, my wife and I went down the road to Roaring Creek Falls. Little Roaring Creek Falls is bigger than Roaring Creek Falls, but Roaring Creek Falls is (or can be) a lot more roaring. But not today. The unfortunate problem with this waterfall is that it is situated below a hydro facility which diverts a lot of water from the creek. But when it has been raining very hard, there can still be huge amounts of water flowing in the creek.There hasn’t really been enough rain yet this year, though the waterfall is still a nice one, dropping 57 ft. along the creek.

Getting to the waterfall is a bit tricky as there are steep cliffs all around the falls. You wouldn’t want to slip and fall, that’s for sure. When I was here a couple years ago, I noticed animal bones scattered around the ledge area where I was photographing. It seemed to me this might be a dining area for the local cougar. This time around, I did not notice any new bones here, but I did see the same animal jawbone that I saw a couple years ago, from possibly a deer. Perhaps the cougar has moved on to other waterfalls. If you come here though, don’t go looking for the jawbone. It is not there any longer. My wife scoffed it.

Oh yeah, one more thing. My dog and wife each managed to collect quite a few ticks here (fortunately, she didn’t get any bites). Presumably, they were sitting in a nest of them while I was photographing the falls (or something). I didn’t get any ticks on myself. I was actually more worried about touching the poison oak. But I guess I managed to avoid that as well. Lucky me. My wife, however, was not so lucky. Not only did she get ticks, she got a bad case of poison oak, and not to mention a really bad cold on top of that. Whoops. I guess I’ll be sleeping on the couch for awhile. 😉