Lucky you, this page is mostly just going to be pictures, without of lot of commentary from me. Well, after this first little bit at least. Despite the warnings we received the night before from our waitress, the park surrounding the falls was both lovely and deserted. And as usual in our lawsuit happy society, very safety conscious, as you can see from this sign. This is, of course made even more amusing by the realization that the falls are quite small, and completely surrounded by chain link fence. It would take some serious work to get down to the water, but I suppose we shouldn't underestimate the determination of some people, right?

We headed over to the falls, and tooks lots of pictures. Despite their size, they were interesting, with some rather neat rock formation along the side. This is my favorite of the pictures we took.

And this is the two of us standing in front of the falls.

And in this one, in the left hand corner, you can see what I thought was the most interesting part of the park, the remains of an old flour mill that had been built on the site at the turn of the century. According to the sign that was there, the mill had gone bankrupt due to both an insufficient amount of wheat to grind, and an insufficient amount of water to power the mill when they did have wheat to grind. Apparently, they thought there was more water coming through the falls than there actually was.
And here is a close up of the one bit of the millworks that was still standing in somewhat good repair. This housed some of the sluiceworks for the factory - water would get diverted into the channel underneath it, and the greater water pressure would put the machinery in motion.

After this interesting stop, it was back on the road for us!