Hamilton Pool

Imagine you're an eight-year-old boy, the son of German immigrants, out exploring your parents' newly purchased property. Out hiking, keeping track in your brain about the animals you might spot, and you come to a creek that looks like this:



Pretty neat, I'd think if I were the kid, and then you follow it back, and stumble upon this:



This is known as Hamilton Pool, named for the previous family that owned the land before selling it to the Reimers, the German immigrant family who's eight-year old son re-discovered the waterfall and grotto during a hike. The phenomena was created through millennia of erosion. It is now a state park, and swimming is allowed as long as the bacteria count isn't too high to make anyone sick. It's a little under an hour away from us, and we took Tony when he came out to visit.

Spectacular kinda describes it...

Here's a photo for scale...my computer at home, when a picture from my blog is clicked, blows up the picture big...if yours at home does the same, I'd suggest clicking this one; Corrie can be seen close in the foreground, without magnification, and Tony can be seen off in the distance near the right side. The grotto's ceiling is so tall that you feel as if you shrink walking around inside.



Here's Tony enjoying a refreshment near the underneath shore.



It looks like these turtles are contemplating the sign...



I'll post some more pictures from this site in a little while, since there's more natural history, beauty, and nature to deal with...