Did you know...?
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (63594)
United States
August 12, 2012 9:42pm CST
So, I was doing some jigsaw puzzles today. Lately I've been doing waterfall puzzles, I guess I needed a break from the heat and dryness around here.
So, one of the puzzles caught my interest. It was a place called "Potomac Falls."
Now, you gotta remember, I live in Texas, that's like over 1000 miles away from Washington D.C. I have BEEN to Washington D.C., but only to the city.
When I think of the east coast I think of things being pretty flat. I know there are actual mountains in part of New Jersey - I haven't seen them, but I've heard about them. But all the pictures I see of Washington D.C. and the Potomac is this broad, slow moving, or at least slow seeming to move, river.
The very idea that it had waterfalls on it stopped me and made me go look it up! I'm sure you know that I do actually look stuff up that I see in jigsaw puzzles, and this isn't the first waterfall I've looked up this week.
I tell ya, if I could just travel the world and visit waterfalls I would, if you could throw in ruins with that I'd be delirious!
Here's a link to the National Parks Service page:
http://www.nps.gov/grfa/index.htm
I swear I missed my calling, I should've gone for geology, I just love the stuff!
Do you love waterfalls? Would you travel to see them?
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18 responses
@SarahAlyx (181)
• United States
13 Aug 12
I think waterfalls are goregous! If I could I would travel around and make sure that every other place I went to visit there would be a waterfall! Its amazing to just stand in front of one and feel the power and beauty.
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@GreenMoo (11834)
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13 Aug 12
Waterfalls are amazing. They're wild and they're not static like some views seem to be. the moisture in the atmosphere also makes them cool and pleasant places to be around. I'd travel to see a special enough one i think, although I've never done before.
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
13 Aug 12
I really adore waterfalls. In Australia I enjoyed a very happy day at Crystal Cascades. It was lovely to bathe in the clear water and see the splashing waterfalls. Wow! I saw some other wonderful looking waterfalls in that beautiful country. I saw a stunning looking high up waterfall in Samoa. On a walk in the Seychelles I saw a sweet looking waterfall with the water being used for drinking water. I saw notices explaining that.
Earlier this year I traveled with my 5 year old disabled son and my 3 year old daughter. We visited the Iguazu Falls in South America between Argentina and Brazil. The side in Argentina was rustic and natural looking. It delighted me to see the amazing looking waterfalls. The side in Brazil was more modern looking with a glass lift and a metal walkway. In Argentina there were views through trees and it was far more open a view in Brazil.
I would travel a long way in order to see a waterfall.
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
15 Aug 12
I remember your posting about going to South America and seeing the falls. It sounds so lovely.
The closest I've gotten to getting under a waterfall was at McKinney falls, and the day we went to go swimming there wasn't any water running and the next time the creek was closed due to run off from a water treatment plant (I understand it has since been closed.)
@savak03 (6684)
• United States
13 Aug 12
The first thing that caught my attention when I moved up here to Tennessee was how many waterfalls there were. I had spent the last twenty something years living in the South Georgia/North Florida area. There it truly is all flat land. When I came up here almost everywhere I went was up or down some mountain and the cliffs I drove between would have the most beautiful cascades of water coming down. Some of them were even coming out of caves. I was looking for some pictures I took but I think the waterfall ones are on my other computer. However I do have some of the ice that formed from them during the winter.
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
15 Aug 12
That was beautiful waterfall, my sister lives in Knoxville and takes some lovely hikes in the Smokies.
I like finding little streams that don't even have names, but make lovely little cascades after a rainfall. I even like them dry - just because I love the way the geology shows up in the erosion.
@alaskanray (4636)
• United States
13 Aug 12
I have seen some beautiful waterfalls in my life and traveled quite a bit. It's nice to reminisce now that travel proves to be too painful for me.
I also love ruins. In my hometown there is a ghost town called Treadwell and I lived walking distance from it when I was a young person. My favorite thing to do was to explore the whole area. Treadwell was a mining town in its heyday and there was an open pit they used to mine called the "Glory Hole". At one time it caved in and the cave in was a real disaster. I'm not sure just how many men lost their lives there but it was an exciting piece of history and the whole area was full of wonderful "ghosts". Now the city has fenced off the glory hole. People used to dump old cars there all the time. It has a waterfall on one side of it and is very pretty but nowadays you have to see it through a chain link fence. 
Oh, sigh! At least I got to enjoy it as a kid. Wonderful memories there.
Oh, sigh! At least I got to enjoy it as a kid. Wonderful memories there.2 people like this
@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
13 Aug 12
I can't get too many places these days, even tho I'm not as bad off as you are. Still, a ghost town named Treadwell, I used to live on a street called Treadwell (I met the granddaughter of the original owner of the land that the neighborhood was built out of and shared the same name.
Heck, I once had an accident on the corner of Lamar and Treadwell STREET, the police man looked at my license and then the street name and back again. I said - "Boulevard not Street" and he kind of laughed and said he didn't think Treadwell STREET went that high a number. 
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@riyauro (6421)
• India
13 Aug 12
I love waterfalls. We have in Fiji on the northern Island. One is just by the road and a couple of them in the mountains and in the jungle. One big waterfall can be seen from the road and it looks so awesome. The one on the road side is like on the way from My town to the other town. three hours drive away from each other. Many people stop by the waterfall and have a bath. There is force in the water falling and one can lye to have a good massage as well. I always fill the bottles with so fresh water. waterfall water is pure water. We have FIJI NATURAL WATER which is bottled water you can find overseas also. It tastes so good. It is in its natural state. I miss FIJI WATER. 
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
14 Aug 12
Yes, I've bought some of that water, I love those crazy square bottles!
I've heard so much about Fiji, from people who take vacations there it makes it one of those places that would be a place I'd like to go. I'm not much of a layer on the beach, but seeing the beautiful country would be wonderful.
@winterose (39887)
• Canada
13 Aug 12
you have to see the majestic Niagara Falls, in Ontario Canada, it is much bigger than Niagara Falls in Buffalo, N.Y. It will take your breath away
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@BarBaraPrz (47279)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
13 Aug 12
Well, c'mon up to Hamilton, the self-proclaimed Waterfall Capital of the World, with over 100 documented waterfalls.
http://www.cityofwaterfalls.ca/
@BarBaraPrz (47279)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
14 Aug 12
I know there's a poster available because I've seen it, but not sure where to get it.
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@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
14 Aug 12
I don't think I've ever seen a waterfall other than in pictures. I was born in the flat country of Oklahoma and have lived the better part of life here in a flat part of Texas.
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@bellis716 (4799)
• United States
15 Aug 12
I'm going to find a waterfall in the middle of a drought? Well......maybe a manmade one. Somehow water is found for tourist attractions.
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@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
13 Aug 12
yes waterfalls are some of natures most beautiful attractions. i think they are romantic
obviously you did miss your calling. altho i do often look up pretty and or interesting sights. 
obviously you did miss your calling. altho i do often look up pretty and or interesting sights. 
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
23 Aug 12
Who says you can't have another career? I'm sure you can still study geology if you really wanterd. What is it about waterfalls that you like so much?
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@ElicBxn (63594)
• United States
23 Aug 12
I'm just totally captivated by running water, and the faster it runs...
Besides that, waterfalls crave through the rock so you can see the layers...
I'll have to take a picture of an area around a bridge here in town sometime so you can see the lovely limestone layers around Austin...
@Canellita (12029)
• United States
23 Aug 12
I have a friend in Austin who is into caving. Do you ever do that?
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@allknowing (136150)
• India
13 Aug 12
In my travel experience there have been several waterfalls on my way. Niagara falls are incomparable! The Milford Sound experience in New Zealand is yet another incomparable phenomena.In my own country there are quite a few.
But the Angel Falls in Venezuela is considered the tallest and most forceful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HY2drwXUHw&feature=related
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@rizzaspeaks (391)
• Philippines
13 Aug 12
Waterfalls got wondrous beauty..yet dangerous. I love to see them in real, i mean the breath-taking ones :)
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@rizzaspeaks (391)
• Philippines
14 Aug 12
thanks for the link..
natural beauty indeed :)
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/104055_the-seven-wonder-falls-in-the-philippines
~this blog had few glimpses of what we had
@Fishmomma (11377)
• United States
13 Aug 12
I love water and would enjoy traveling to see waterfalls; specially if its cool there. I'm tired of the heat and want to just cool off today. I do enjoy building puzzles also.
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
18 Aug 12
I love all sorts of natural scenery. When I was younger I did lots of bush-walking and that included exploring caves and waterfalls and I was into anything going.
My knees gave out and that put a stop to any climbing so the bush-walking was mostly out. However, the second last time I went was about 10 years ago and my partner and I went to explore the Queen Anne Falls. It was splendid, as I was able to walk all the way round and back again without too much pain. It was an awesome day all round actually.
I'm by myself now and I don't like going places by myself as I find it too boring.
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
13 Aug 12
I do love waterfalls. would like to stand under a small one in this hot weather we have been having. I don't travel ao want get to see any.
