About Cascade de Wadiana
Cascade de Wadiana (I’ve also seen it spelled Wadjana) surprised both Julie and I with its size. We were kind of expecting a much smaller waterfall that was known more as a swimming hole, but as you can see from the picture above, if you combine the swimming experience at its plunge pool (which by the way had lots of fish) with the grand scene of this multi-tiered cascade, you’d have one of the most beautiful and pleasurable places to take a refreshing dip! In fact, Julie and I thought this waterfall was prettier than the Chute de la Madeleine not that far away from here. In any case, this waterfall was not only beautiful and a good place for a swim, but it was also very accessible as it was pretty much right off the road practically next to the remote southeast coast of the Grande Terre Island.
We were able to access the waterfall after a short rock scramble from the pullout next to the road (see directions below). After less than a minute of the rock scramble, we were pretty much right by the rocky banks of the plunge pool of the waterfall. Julie spotted lots of small fish on the near side of the plunge pool. As we scrambled to the outlet of the stream, we could also see that just downstream from the road bridge was the coastal reef and lagoon protecting the coast from the bigger waves further away from land.
Something peculiar about our visit to Cascade de Wadiana was that there were several smoldering patches of something burning (rubbish maybe?). There was a local living right across the road from the falls, and I’d imagine they were the ones who set up the smoking piles. That created some pretty nasty air quality in the area, and we weren’t sure if those were set up to keep mosquitos away or to keep people away. That was probably the one thing that kept us from lingering here much longer as our lungs were taking a beating from the smoke that was pervasive.
When I walked onto the single-lane road bridge nearest to the falls, I was able to see that there was a hard-to-see upper tier way up on the mountain before it disappeared into the foliage. That kind of gave me a sense of just how tall this waterfall was though it didn’t seem to have an official measure (I’m guessing it was in the neighborhood of 60m or more). In any case, our visit lasted about 15 minutes before our lungs couldn’t take much more of the smoke.
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