Hiking Adventures

Last Thursday, July 20th, Some friends and I went for some hikes.   There isn't a ton to say about them, but the pictures say a lot.   The first place was some trails around a pond - and we kept trying to get good shots of fish.  Some of the cool cliffs in the distance on some of them were on our drive to the second hiking spot.

 Here is a picture of Lake Ontario as we drove over it on a bridge.

The second place we went to was a beautiful waterfall.   When we were driving here, Elsbeth and I were in one car and Jonathan and Tim were in another - we were each coming from a different place.  Elsbeth and I had gone on a hike at the lake, while Jonathan and Tim had come from home.    When we, Elsbeth and I, were driving there, we followed her phone's GPS.   The problem was when we got in the area the falls were suppose to be, the GPS dumped us in the middle of the freeway.   We tried to keep going, thinking it was off and it will now reroute us, and it did - it rerouted us back to the middle of the freeway.   We retried this several times, with the same result every time.   So I pulled out my phone and used Apple's maps to direct us to the falls.   My GPS the proceeded to dump us on the other side of the freeway in the middle of a subdivision.  So we stopped and Googled the falls and found the address.  We plugged this address in and it took us to the right place.  We were worried that Jonathan and Tim would have the same trouble so we texted them asking them where they were at and told them the right address.  But they were already there and they had no trouble at all.   Come to find out, between Elsbeth's and my GPS's, one of ours had about the correct longitude while the other had about the correct latitude, but neither had both correct.   

It was one of the most beautiful waterfalls I have ever seen.  What you can't see is the huge nearly straight up cliff right behind me.    That is where you walk in at (the picture above was taken from that spot), and then you hike down to the bottom.   It was a ton of fun.    You can see that in the middle there seems to be a bit of a ledge.   That ledge goes back about 10 feet before it hits the other part of the falls.   We climbed up the lower part of the falls and walked around, laid down and sat on the ledge.  We also sat under the upper part of the falls and just let the roaring water rush over us.   It was beautiful, wet and a ton of fun!  I definitely want to go back!  

These pictures (below) were taken by Elsbeth:

In this first one you can see Jonathan and I having a good chat up on the falls.

This is the view from by the parking lot.