Leon Turnbull Photography

If you continue on a bit past the wildflower area (previous post), and make your way down to the river, you will come to a waterfall. Chamberlain Creek Falls. It is a very small waterfall on a very small drainage. But it is still kinda pretty if the creek is flowing well. Nonetheless, you won’t want to come here if the creek is not flowing at full tilt. As you can see from this photo, it isn’t much, and this is about maximum flow for this creek.

You also won’t want to come here if you don’t like poison oak. There is a quite a lot of it along the trail, and as you work your way down to the waterfall, you have to go right through it. Now it may be easy enough to avoid if you are careful and paying attention (which I was not). I was a bit careless, and tripped and fell, right into what? Yep, a big patch of poison oak! Even though I scrubbed myself raw with Tecnu when I got home, I still got a very bad rash this time. I can’t explain it, but sometimes Tecnu seems to work and sometimes it doesn’t. I guess if you fall right into the stuff, that is when it does not work.