Waterfalls

Today we headed out toward our lake house in Hot Springs--taking care of some necessities.  We had to stop at the hardware store to get a few supplies and that took longer than expected.  Finally we made it there and decided it would be best to take care of our jobs and then go fishing  tomorrow.  The fishing didn't work out so we decided to head toward Little Missouri Falls and Crater of  Diamonds State Park. We decided to go to the Ouachita Vista which is close to our lake house but a large tree/stump had gotten caught at the bridge so we had to turn around.  We went through a town called Narmon and saw an old school/church ( looked to be over a 100 years old).  We stopped long enough to take a lot pictures of inside and outside.   Then we went to look for the falls.  We could see large amounts of water running in the creeks and knew that the falls were going to be full and running hard. While going down a gravel/dirt road, we came to a sudden halt, a tree had been washed up  and caught by another tree and since we did not have a chainsaw with us we had to turn around and go another way.  We kept following the creeks and found a nice waterfall close to the main road.  The water fall dropped about 4 to 5 feet and had a very large rock in the center diving the fall into a split making the water go into two directions and then there were several rocks where the water could run over them causing beautiful cascades.  This alone was worth the trip and then we headed on the the Little Missouri Falls.  This is a beautiful park and there is a real nice walkway and bridge to the falls and steps build down to the falls.  Its well worth the trip.  The falls are beautiful and that day it was running full with lots of cascades.  Its well worth the trip and the time it takes to walk down to the falls.  By the time we got to the Crater of Diamonds State Park it was after 5 and the park closes at 6.  There was a lot of information displayed concerning the Diamond Mines (its history) I was not interested in digging for diamonds so we left shortly thereafter.    

I will try to post some of the photos within the next few days.


All in all it was a wonderful day in the Wilderness--My kind of day! ! !