The day started out with a search for some insect repellant.  This has been a very buggy season – lots and lots of mosquitoes.  Started at the local mini-department store, but they were completely sold out.  After a bit of an excursion, found that there was only about a dozen cans of Deet based in the local gas station camping section and another dozen cans of permethrin at the local sporting goods – thats it in town and likely the county.

I started out with a trip to Gomanche Falls (though I wonder if I found that specific waterfall…) I did find a waterfall to photograph.  It was a nice small one with a few stories to tell for its water (looking at the map now, it was probably Page Creek Falls).  After filling up the memory card (wait, I only had ~40 frames on that card?!) I went back to the hotel room to figure out where I could reclaim some storage.

Nope – all three of my cards were full and I wasn’t sure if I had transferred those images completely off or not. Ok, get the memory card reader…  oh, it doesn’t have a spot for compact flash.  Hmm, what about usb? I’ve got a mini usb cable here, which… doesn’t connect to the non-standard plug.

So, digging around in my camera bag and… there’s an empty 16 GB compact flash card that was in a pouch in another pocket.  Phew.

Back to the waterfalls.  Off to what I think is the Slate River Falls.  That’s what the sign post said, thats what matched the directions on the brochure, but the book I have and website say a different waterfall.  Oh well.

Slate River Falls was a nice quartzite waterfall.  Wide, lots of stories, but its a wide waterfall.  They aren’t stories that I’m as familiar with telling – something to learn in time.

Up a bit from there were two other waterfalls that I spent a quick look at.  Looking at some of the other waterfall photos of Black Slate Falls, I’ll have to go back there again some day in the future walk a little and see whats a bit further down the falls rather than the easy access from the top.

The next stop was Canyon Falls,  A nice ten miute walk down to the falls.  It was a very powerful falls.  Lots of water going over a single shelf into the canyon.  You could feel the falls in the rock itself and the canyon was beautiful.   Just the waterfall was not one that had a single ‘story’.

From there I headed to Bond Falls.  The mosquitos there were awful.  Swarms of them.  The waterfall, however, was one that I understood – it was a basalt waterfall rather than one of quartzite.  Not the huge columns of Burney or Romana, but basalt nonetheless. I got a number of photos, but I’ll be back there tomorrow to see if I can get it in another light (and maybe before the mosquitos wake up).

Finishing up there, it was an hour drive back to Baraga. Got back just a bit before things started closing too much… and a nice burger at the drive in burger joint (good root beer).