World of Waterfalls Blog

Cataract Falls is really a long series of waterfalls and rapids starting near the Laurel Dell and eventually spilling into the man-made Alpine Lake. During our visit to the falls…

Carson Falls is another series of waterfalls (though not as extensive a series as the nearby Cataract Falls). Because it sits near the top of the…

Cascade Falls is a pretty diminutive 20ft waterfall, but it was one of the “easier” waterfall hikes we did in Marin County, and it seemed there were a lot of memorable things…

As we parked the car and got out, we could tell right away that we were in the mountains for the air was frigidly cold and there was a breeze that…

As we parked the car and got out, we could tell right away that we were in the mountains for the air was frigidly cold and there was a breeze that…

This itinerary covered a return trip to Big Sur for the first time in about six years. Part of what motivated us to make this return visit was that this Winter was one of the wetter Winters that we’ve had in recent memory. So we knew the waterfalls…

We weren’t sure if there was a limit to the number of people on the trail at one time. So we asked one of the employees there if this was the case. He just told us that…

Fish Canyon Falls maybe our favorite local waterfall. Strangely enough however, we hadn’t visited this waterfall during all the years we had been waterfalling until the Spring of 2010…

Little Falls in the Santa Lucia Wilderness is one of those waterfalls we had to go out of our way for. For starters, we managed to visit this waterfall while lodging in Big Sur…

“Castro Canyon Waterfall” is a name I’m making up for this surprise waterfall. It’s actually on the Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn property, but you can see the lower part of the falls from…

As we got towards the middle of this stream crossing, there came a point where we had no choice but to wade through shin deep to knee-deep of water. Further progress meant…

Having lost an hour of sleep thanks to Daylight Savings Time, Julie and I awoke at 8:30am, which was late for us considering we wanted to get some hiking done today…

Temescal Canyon Falls is definitely one of those waterfalls that’s so close to civilization yet is far enough into the Santa Monica Mountains to at least have some naturesque feel to it…

Julie and I were itching to do a hike today, but yesterday’s rains had lasted all day long and was forecasted to continue into this morning. So given that, we had slept…

Newton Canyon Falls was one of those waterfalls that somehow eluded us many years ago on our first attempt. But after finding it recently, we wondered how on earth we managed to miss it…

We didn’t expect to take more than an hour or so, and it was a total last-minute decision. But that was when some unexpected things happened, and well, it just seems that adventure…

I didn’t remember the pool being this dirty the last time we were here, but apparently Julie noticed this too as she pulled a face and gave me that look that something really stunk…

We had only gone roughly two miles along the rough road, but it seemed like we had gone further than that. Mom was sitting nervously in the back (I could tell by her silence) as her car was jostling.

Holy Jim Falls has such a memorable name that every time I think about it, I have this impulse to shout out “Holy Jim!” before the word “Falls.” Apparently the name was in honor…

This itinerary was the Cook Islands leg of our 31-day trip to New Zealand and the Cook Islands. It was basically an unwinding of the more active trip we did of both islands in New Zealand…