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| A February visit to a lovely falls...Hooker Falls on the Little River in DuPont Forest, NC. |
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| My friend is enjoying the sunshine on this cold day at the foot of the falls. |
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| I have seen boats with fishermen in them over on the far side from the "swimming area." |
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| The Little River tumbles over lots of falls, and provides many a trout pool, if only I knew how to catch them. I prefer just going to a restaurant and having fresh catch (even if it comes from a farm!) |
In the 1990s, DuPont Forest was sold to the State of North Carolina, and as DuPont has completed cleanup of various areas, those areas have been made open to the public. (Source, Wikipedia)
My North Carolina friends are vacationing right now on another Key near Sarasota, for a couple of weeks, while I help them by feeding their cats. I hope they are enjoying this snshine!
In case you want to catch something closer to fish or fishing, look over at Sepia Saturday here.
I think my photos are a bit more pleasing than the one in the prompt, but that's just my personal taste.
We have a Hooker Falls in New Zealand as well. In the North Island. Nice photos.
ReplyDeleteThey are beautiful photos Barb.
ReplyDeleteThese are all beautiful pictures, but my favorites are those of Hooker Falls. So pretty. I can just see myself sitting there in that sun listening to those falls while contentedly woolgathering. Or singing. I remember one time on a hike in the mountains coming to some pretty little musical falls on a small creek & sitting down to listen to them for a bit & suddenly bursting into song as if to join them, thinking no one could hear me because of the noise the falls were making. Wrong! Along came a father & son whom I didn't hear 'because of the noise the falls were making' just as I was finishing "Shall We Dance" from "The King & I", who gave me an odd smile as they crossed the creek & went on their way. Oh well . . .
ReplyDeleteI wonder whether Edmund Hooker was a fisherman. With a name like that he should have caught a lot of fish.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bel...I wonder if the Hookers tended to settle near streams with falls! That's a long distance apart from NC to NZ!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kerryn for your praise, I appreciate it.
Gail, I am pretty sure I've been caught singing in the woods too...perhaps not quite as high a quality as you would have however!
Bob, that's a good question! Hopefully anyone living near water used it as a food resource.
Really nice photos. I wondered about Hooker's name also.
ReplyDeleteSuch pretty countryside.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos of the falls and all those rocks. I've been to Siesta Key too -- wouldn't mind going back.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful water photos. I love the fishing photograph of your grandmother. Missing these photographs makes me miss the water.
ReplyDeleteYour photos are all so great. I enjoyed the note to the cousin. I have cousins that are on the second and third remove that live in the area and I forget sometime that we really are rather closely related.
ReplyDeleteBob and Helen, you're probably right about people following their names, or is it the other way around, being named for their trades? I happen to know only one woman named Potter who makes pottery however.
ReplyDeleteWendy, so glad you've also enjoyed Siesta Key!
Kristin, I think that was someone else's grandmother fishing, if I remember right. Thanks for visiting anyway!
LD, I dare say I wouldn't appreciate my cousins (if they'd been around all my life) half as much!
Looks like a beautiful location for fishing, hiking or relaxing, so long as there are no bears in the surrounding woods!
ReplyDeleteThe cats are probably hoping your friends being back some fish. Lovely scenery you have there.
ReplyDeleteYour photos made me want to be there enjoying the sound of the falls and the chill in the air.
ReplyDeleteyes, this was a delightful, and well needed post! Winter is moving in soon, and I want to treasure all that is not, winter!
ReplyDeleteI can almost feel the sand beneath my feet in that first photo of Siesta Key. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteJo, I've never met a bear, though there are stories of them in the woods...but I've not been far away from cars and roads usually.
ReplyDeleteOh Pauleen, what happy cats they would be if their folks bring them home fish!
Cathy and Karen, I think I avoided these falls during the summer, when there would have been crowds, just so I could enjoy nature totally.
Alex, you've made me wish to walk on a beach now!
I just watched Last of the Mohicans only a few weeks ago on Netflix. I had not seen it since we've moved to North Carolina and I wondered where that scene was filmed. The Dupont forest waterfalls are indeed dramatic.
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