As we neared the smaller of the two, Agate Falls, we started to get pretty excited. We were finally here - oh my gosh we were finally here! The signs brought us to a rest stop run by the Department of Transportation (DoT). That was unusual, all the rest stops with waterfalls had been run by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) in MN, WI and Canada. We hoped we weren't on a wild goose chase, duped into visiting some over-hyped little nothing so many miles from home.

 

We followed the short path to a boardwalk, and saw a large cascade way down through the trees that was nearly obscured and not very approachable. The boardwalk continued, so we followed it to the end where we saw some more cascades and the top of our target, Agate Falls.

 

 

It was big, all right. But what kind of a dumb view is this? No way, we were hopping the fence. I turned to tell Kathy my thoughts, but she was already on the way down. I saw her scaling a difficult part of the steep, pine needle-covered ravine and wondered if there was another way. I weaved back and forth until I reached the river, which was quite scenic.

 

 

Meanwhile, Kathy had found what appeared to be a bear cave, but did not appear mauled when I ran into her.

 

 

Agate falls looked much cooler from down here,

 

 

and I wondered if I could get some close-ups from the side.

 

I managed somehow to get pretty far up the wet red cliff so I could take some pictures and video clips.

 

Okay, that was better than expected, now it was time to check out Bond Falls. We arrived there quickly and easily found the main entrance to a loop-path that went over these twins,

 

 

then past a series of cascades,

then past the Bond Falls Rapids,

 

 

 

 

to the top of Bond Falls.

 

 

The path turned into steps going way down along the side of the falls, with a platform halfway down that was so close to Bond you could touch it.

 

 

The steps finally ended, with the next good view of the bottom of Bond falls.

 

As I rounded the corner, catching another cool view;

 

I realized I had only been looking at half of the falls. Holy Smokes! This baby was a wide one!

 

 

This side was pretty darn big, too!

 

 

Feeling like we had captured the essence of Bond with a lot of bonus-shots to boot, we headed back to our car. However... there were more opportunities on the way. First Kathy snapped this cool but out of service man-made stepping stone path across the river,

 

 

 

then she disappeared again, returning excitedly minutes later with the winning Critter-of-the-Day shot (A-GAIN!!)

 

No, not this one, but I like it.

 

 

This one...

 

 

or else this one. Which do you pick?

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