High Falls

Wednesday June 5th

after our morning routine, we headed out to the trails, I was excited to see the falls and the river.  We started on the short trail (1.5 miles) that jogged along the river, it was a slightly rough trail, with hills and slopes and roots, and rocks, but the views were AWESOME!!

The water starts from High Falls Lake, and goes over the above dam, and onto the rocks for quite a ways and ends up in Towaliga river.

now please don't judge Shane for using the pink bag, it was all we had at the time that worked like a backpack :)

So off to the nature trails we go!!  They had look outs every so often, and a couple times the trails led us right down to the water.  there were signs every where that said "KEEP OFF THE ROCKS" yet the trails lead you right to them, hmmm....

If you look closely at the other side of the river, you will see some red stairs, we were there also :)

And here is where were walking out onto the rocks that were dry, you could walk way out if you wanted to, but we tried to stay close to the side so we didn't get into trouble.

Further on down the trail we came to an old building that used to be a Powerhouse, they say that this small town of High Falls used to be booming back in the 1800's.

 

And then on to the other side of the river

And there is the other stairs that we were just on, this time from the other side of the river.

Jemma got hot, so she needed a "pool break".  If you look to the left of the picture you can see how the water looks like it just disappears, that's one of the falls, pretty cool.  i felt the water, it was surprisingly warm, I guess I thought it was gonna be super cold, then I reminded myself we are only in Georgia, not so far north YET!!

And here is my handsome husband enjoying the views!!

On hiking we go, along the river, tons of nice views!! Water falls, huge rocks, and nature at its finest.  After a little while Jemma needed another pool break, Daddy took her this time.

After the river walk, we ventured off onto the nature trail, and then back to camp for lunch.  After lunch we headed off for the other trail, which was just a trail through the woods, nothing really exciting there, but it was a 2.5 mile hike, so overall today we hiked about 5 miles, pretty good for beginners i thought.
Then dinner, and a fire, but our wood was wet so it wasn't a great fire but we enjoyed it still.