City of Waterfalls

This year Hamilton has targeted waterfalls as our tourist attraction & has created a website as part of its promotion. It is a smart move since the best hiking trails (& we have many of them) lead to a waterfall. Also, people don't often think of beautiful when they hear Hamilton, so putting this image forward attached to a waterfall is good thinking. However, although the ads that they play on the radio have an OK jingle, the singer is terrible- sounds pretty cheesy.

All that aside I like to hike & the kids are becoming more willing to participate so I thought we would enjoy the publication of the location of the waterfalls & start visiting as many as we could. Today's venture took us to Tiffany Falls. When Sydney was at art camp this week & I was filling time, I went by here many times. I also remembered going here once with Logan (& locking my keys in my car) and knew it was a short trail so I figured this was also a good test for the kids.

It was lots of fun. The kids got to do some of their favourite things (i.e. climb, throw rocks in the water & splash around in the river) & I got to step back into some of my favourite childhood memories. There was a river that ran through the bush beside our house growing up & I loved playing back there. Although, when I would go back to the river I was typically the only person back there unless my friends were with me & not interrupted by others on the trail. But I must remember that I grew up in a town of 500 not 500 000.

I checked out the website & think we should target Albion Falls next. It looks beautiful. Brad starts vacation next week, maybe we will need to wait for him.

A few obstacles make for a good climb.

When the first soaker occurred, she got upset.
But then it became the challenge to see how much water she could get in.

Jason forever the copycat, wanted to do the same but I would not let him go to the same place in the river. So there was no water pouring out of his boot.