Tag: Waterfall

Picture of the Day for November 22, 2015

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The cold night made my pond rather stiff with a new layer of ice but this river flows a little too fast for ice to form overnight. The Upper Tahquamenon Falls, in the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan, is more than 200 feet across and a drop of about 48 feet. During the late spring runoff, the river drains as much as 50,000 gallons of water per second, and while the flow was only 2,740 gallons per second in early fall when I visited the river, it was still an impressive amount of water flowing over both the upper and lower falls. The brown water comes from the tannins leached from the cedar swamps in the river drain basin.

Upper Tahquamenon Falls

Upper Tahquamenon Falls

Picture of the Day for November 14, 2015

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Tucked in an area near Baraboo, Wisconsin, Skillet Creek cut a 30 to 40 foot narrow canyon through the Cambrian sandstone, forming a series of potholes and waterfalls in an area called Pewits Nest. The name came from a mid-1800s eccentric mechanic who built his workshop into the cliffs using the creek to power a water wheel to turn lathes for repairing or manufacturing equipment. This dwelling resembled the nest of a phoebe (or peewit, an earlier name for this bird), hence dubbed by early settlers the ‘Peewit’s Nest.

On my visit to the ‘nest’ in the fall, the small flow of water wouldn’t turn a big water wheel as the average flow is .8 cubic feet per second (unlike Niagara Falls which is 85,000 cfs) but the gentle current caused fallen leaves to swirl around. There is no remaining evidence of the workshop and the state officially designated the natural area as Pewits Nest in 1985.

Pewits Nest

Pewits Nest

Picture of the Day for October 13, 2015

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Few waterfalls actually fall directly into Lake Superior but instead drop in elevation just before reaching its destination. But there are some which do, like Spray Falls in the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, which drops 70 feet directly into Lake Superior. You can’t hike around behind the falls since the cliff hasn’t been cut back into the rock and the lake it too chilly for swimming but the best views of the falls are from the lake.

Spray Falls

Spray Falls

Picture of the Day for August 7, 2015

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As the Montreal River, which forms the border for parts of Upper Michigan and Wisconsin, drops in elevation on its way to Lake Superior, it cascades over several waterfalls. This 20 foot waterfall is called Interstate Falls, with Peterson Falls slightly upstream, and with Saxon and Superior Falls downstream.

The Wisconsin side of the falls is currently up for sale, and although it has been private land, public public access has been allowed along the foot trail to the falls and river. But this could change and there is no public access on the Michigan side to see the falls so I’m glad I saw it when I did even if wasn’t in the best lighting conditions at the time but the sunlight did catch the mist rising from the falls and sparkles on the water closer to shore.

Interstate Falls

Interstate Falls

 

Picture of the Day for July 18, 2015

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The roaring of the wind and thunder rumble last night from the storm sounded like being near a loud waterfall. The humid day made my shirt wet but not a cool wet like from the waterfall mist and the heavy rainfall cut ‘rivers’ into the gravel driveway creating rushing water and mini waterfalls.

The Upper Falls on the Amnicon River  flows over dark basalt formed by lava that flowed across the region about a billion years ago.  The fine texture of this rock suggests that the lava was very fluid and cooled rapidly enough to prevent the formation of crystals. The river runs along the Douglas Fault formed about 500 million years ago.  A few feet downstream the Amnicon River flows over Lake Superior sandstone at the Lower Falls.

Upper Falls on the Amnicon River

Upper Falls on the Amnicon River

Listen to the waterfall’s roar in the video.

Picture of the Day for July 11, 2015

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A small stream of water drops down a fracture in the granite wall 80 to 100 feet, making it the second highest waterfall in Wisconsin, before settling into small shaded pool of water running into Morgan Creek. Definitely not the widest waterfall or having a great volume of water, but Morgan Falls has it own unique charm as it twists and splashes against the granite wall. The very top of the falls isn’t in the picture and I didn’t wade across the creek to look for a different angle.

Morgan Falls

Morgan Falls

A short video of Morgan Falls.

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