Wednesday Walk Along “The Gunpowder Falls” ~ Part 1

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Almost a year ago, I went for a walk along the Gunpowder Falls State Park in hopes of seeing the falls.

My husband looked it up and, turns out we were walking in the wrong direction. So this time we will be walking in the right direction and see how far we get.

Last time we went this way. It was very nice and made for a nice post but it was the wrong direction to see the falls so this time we will take the opposite trail.

I’ll also be showing some photos in full spectrum with the original scene for comparison. I bought the full spectrum camera many years ago. It isn’t the best but it does a nice enough job when I manage to keep a steady hand.

Original

Same scene in full spectrum

This was how the water was looking when we started on the trail.

A little rough in some spots and not so much in others.

The trail wasn’t too bad considering all the rain we’ve had and even though there were some muddy spots we were able to get around them.

It was a beautiful day! I do wish that I’d thought of using mosquito repellent as they thought it was a beautiful day also and were out in full force. Was worth being mosquito bait to get photos like this.

I got to see some pretty colors!

There were a lot of trees down but it looked like several had been down for a while. I thought this one was interesting with all the mushrooms growing on it.

Then my husband pointed out why it was down. Lot of beavers around these parts!

This is one of the trails we were on.

Saw some pretty cool trees!

Not all were standing tall but they were still beautiful!

This one reminded me of a snake with big eyes.

Even the people trippers were cool looking, just had to really watch my step.

It was nice to hear the water rushing by along our walk.

We came upon these two amazing looking trees and I took this series of shots.

You know, I sure did take an awful lot of photos. At one point my husband said “if you keep stopping for so many photos, then we’ll never make it to the falls”. I slowed up on the photo taking and picked up the pace a little. The water was getting louder and we thought we were getting closer but we came upon this.

Turns out there was a small falls here but not “The Falls”.

While my husband scouted for a place to cross, I took some more photos and sat down for a very short rest.

I guess it’s also a good spot to end part 1. Thanks for joining me and I hope you come back for part 2 and maybe even a part 3. I sure did take a lot of photos! 😊