A water slide would feel good today with the high heat index, and this natural slide is one of the series of falls and slides of the Siskiwit River. After this first slide, there are bigger ones down stream as the water drops and makes its way into Lake Superior.
Natural Water Slide
With the start of the holiday weekend and being a hot summer day, water was drawing in people in for different activities. The mist from the waterfall would feel good (but does get the camera lens wet).
A Day By the Falls
With flooded streets and washed out bridges from the nine inches of rain that started falling Sunday evening, it is sometimes hard to remember that a short distance away could still be dry. This waterfall, 125 miles to the north of me, could have used some of the water that fell here. I have seen this falls twice before, even once in the autumn, and the water covered most of the face of the rock past where the two little streams are falling. The name of “Now and Then Falls” is fitting as it only flows abundantly when the river level is high and feeds the small branch of the Amnicon River. And this year, the area as been dry so it is barely flowing and one of my relatives called it “Once in a While”.
Almost Dry Waterfall
If you continued downstream from yesterday’s picture, you would find the Big Manitou Falls, the highest waterfall in Wisconsin. And without any references to scale, it might not seem very tall. There is a person wearing a white shirt standing near the level of the top of the waterfall on the left side about a third of the way into the photo. The person looks like a little white dot.
Big Manitou Falls in Summer
More people may be enjoying the state parks and trails this weekend is the Free Fun weekend where no admission is required, so a trip to see a waterfall may be on the agenda for the day.
Upper Amnicon Falls
The rain fell steadily since last night and today which caused my pond to overflow, but the water flowing out of my little pond is never as pretty as this flow on a branch of the Amnicon River.
Pretty Water Flow
April showers are supposed to bring May flowers, but the rain today was just running down my driveway and overfilling my pond. The extra running water didn’t look as pretty as this water falling at Echo Dells.
Flow at Echo Dells
My pond filled up from the melting snow pack today as the temperature reached 53 degrees and the melting snow off my roof did look like a waterfall, or at least like the left side of this waterfall.
Tranquil Waterfall
This waterfall has more water flowing than what was dripping from my roof, but at least there was some snow melting even though the temperature wasn’t much above freezing during the day but eventually the streams and waterfalls will be flowing again.
Jacob’s Fall in October
Today was another cloudy January day but since it wasn’t snowing, adventurers exploring the winter landscape may have visited waterfalls, which many are beginning to ice over creating interesting frozen structures.
Frozen Siskiwit Falls
