A Big Waterfall ?
For those of you who have been desperate for me to post a waterfall shot, here you go. It is a whopper. Five feet high. It’s only a baby one, but maybe it will just tide you over until the weekend. If all goes well, I’ll have plenty of waterfall photos to share within the next month. Hundreds maybe. Much more than you’ll be able to stomach, I’m sure.
Okay so on to my story …
If someone tells you about a nice, little waterfall somewhere, what would you think it would be like? I’m thinking it would be about 15 to 20 ft. high minimum. Indeed, I would be quite reluctant to call anything under 10 ft. high a waterfall at all. So this was my situation. Someone had said these words to me, but I did not know exactly where this supposed nice, little waterfall was, except it was somewhere on a certain road. I checked my topo maps and came up with a few ideas of where it might be, and so off I went. Well, I did not find any nice, little waterfall where I thought one might be. But I saw a couple walking along the road, so I stopped and asked them if they knew of any waterfall in the area. Now, guys don’t normally ask other people for directions (especially me), but hey, I was desperate. And this guy did indeed know of a waterfall. He said to go down to the bridge over the (North Fork) Cosumnes River. Actually, he called it the Consumsnes River, but since that didn’t exist, I figured he meant the Cosumnes River. He said to just hike downstream from the bridge a bit, and there is a big bend in the river, and then you will see a “BIG WATERFALL”. Not a nice, little one, but a BIG one. All right, I thought. Now we are talking. I was excited. So I drove down to the bridge, started walking downstream, saw the bend in the river, looked around the corner, and saw a whopping 5 foot high waterfall (pictured above). And 5 feet is being really generous. A 5 foot high waterfall ??? This is supposed to be a big waterfall ??? I figured the real waterfall must be further downstream, so I continued hiking down river for quite a distance, but found nothing else at all. Was he just being sarcastic with me? Was he just deluded? More likely, I think.
Anyway, so I decided to take a photo of it, if for nothing else, than I could share this story with you on my blog.
Back at the bridge is a campground, and I did some more asking around there. (I was just in the asking kind of mood that evening). And as it turns out, this 5 foot high monster really is the big waterfall and only waterfall in the area (if you even want to call it a waterfall, which I sure don’t).
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