Waterfalls on Scataway Creek and its Tributaries:
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Hiking in, I passed clusters of frog eggs in an ephemeral pond (more of a puddle, actually...)
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Nice falls on West tributary of Scataway Creek
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A smaller cascade below the main waterfall
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I called this huge boulder Whale Rock...
I need to get a photo from the other side, which I'm told looks like a Turtle Head.
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Nice waterfall setting on Middle tributary of Scataway
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Approaching the gorge on Scataway Creek, a TALL, STEEP series of waterfalls.
If you look closely, you can see falling water all the way to the top of the image.
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Lower series of falls
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Detail of a section of the lower falls
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2nd (or 3rd, depending on how you count) series of falls at Scataway Gorge.
It took a little effort to reach here. Many more drops to go above this one.
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Ten days later, I returned to explore the upper-most falls of the steep series on Scataway Creek:
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With some imagination, you can see why the huge boulder previously pictured
as "Whale Rock" is known as "Turtle Head Rock" from the approach trail.
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I climbed up to the spot where I had halted on my earlier visit.
There are so many drops here, one after the other, that I gave up trying to number them. I will show
the ones that I was able to get in position to photograph, in order, as I climbed the very steep gorge.
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While climbing over a log on the way up, I noticed a nice variety of fungi on the rotting trunk:
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Hymenochaete species(?)
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Trichaptum biforme
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Auricularia species
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A beautiful waterfall gorge:
At the top of this page are a couple of waterfall photos from
the west fork of Scataway Crk. This gorge is further upstream.
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From the base of the gorge
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Upper sections
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A nice freefall at the top, about 40 feet tall.
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A climb to the upper drop on a later visit.
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Freefalling waterfalls like this are not common in this area.
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