Exotic Fulmer Falls in Pennsylvania

Fulmer Falls is the second waterfall located in the George W. Childs Recreation Site in Dingmans Ferry, Pike County, Pennsylvania, United States of America. The falls are downstream from Factory Falls and upstream from Deer Leap Falls on the Dingmans Creek. At 56 feet, it is the largest of the three falls. It is believed that Fulmer Falls might be the tallest of the three falls, although Factory Falls might also be around the same size. None of them are huge, but they’re all beautiful and very easy to visit. In order to have better view of Fulmer Falls at its best, you do have to leave the wooden boardwalk, though it’s not hard to do. You just have to slip under to get that better view. The Fulmer falls can be reached at 41°14′12.36″N 74°54′55.62″W from Childs Park Road, west of Lake Road (State Route 2004), 2.6 KM north of Pennsylvania Route 739. There’re picnic tables set throughout the recreation area ad restroom facilities are also available here. The nearest major town is Dingmans Ferry, PA. Fulmer Falls is a magnificent waterfall to photograph. You can picture the entire falls, but it is also very easy to satisfy your hobby by taking unlimited photographs.

Mount John Laurie Canada

Mount John Laurie is a mountain in the Canadian Rockies, officially named in 1961 and famous as Mount Laurie, or by the Nakoda name name Yamnuska (unofficial name), or simply Yamnuska which means (wall of stone), and it is located in the province of Alberta, Canada. The word Yamnuska" is perceived from the Stoney Nakoda word "Iyamnathka" that describes steep cliffs or "the flat faced mountain." Actually John John Lee Laurie, (1899-1959), was an educator and political activist and a founder of the Indian Association of Alberta.

The Mount Laurie is the most easterly mountain in the valley and features very steep, often vertical and overhanging south cliff 360 metres in height and almost two KM in width. The mountain's 1961 renaming came at the request of the Stoney Nakoda First Nation. Laurie, an educator and political activist, served as secretary of the Indian Association of Alberta from (1944-1956), encouraging the causes of Alberta native peoples. Mount Laurie is standing at about 2,240 meters above sea level, and is the first mountain on the north side of the Bow River valley (Bow Valley) as it exits the mountains for the foothills and prairie of Alberta. It is well situated close to Calgary; and it is a widespread "Great Scramble". It is also very famous for rock climbing destination, with more than hundreds routes of all difficulty levels spread out across its face.

Mount John Laurie is the result of the McConnell Thrust Mistake, which put the resistive, cliff forming Cambrian carbonate rock of the Eldon Formation on top of the much younger and weaker Cretaceous aged, clastic Belly River Formation. The error, which sits at the base of the cliff face, represents an age variance of around 450 million years. The access is to mount Laurie is at the Highway 1X and Highway 1A (Bow Valley Trail) intersection, travel east for two kilometers. Turn into the signed parking lot that says "Yamnuska”.

 

10 other mountain peaks closest to Mount John Laurie:

1.                Mount Yamnuska (2240 meters)                                    0.0 km

2.                Mount Fable (2702 meters)                                             7.6 km

3.                Heart Mountain (2135 meters)                                       9.2 km

4.                Grotto Mountain (2706 meters)                                     11.4 km

5.                Mount Sparrowhawk (3121 meters)                              11.5 km

6.                Mount Lady MacDonald (2605 meters)                       14.0 km

7.                Mount Baldy (2192 meters)                                             15.0 km

8.                Squaw's Tit (2514 meters)                                                15.4 km

9.                Mount Charles Stewart (2809 meters)                           15.5 km

10.              Middle Sister (2769 meters)                                             17.2 km

Guairá Falls Brazil, Paraguay

About 20 KM north of the astonishing Iguazu Falls, there’s another natural wonder even more stunning than the Iguazu falls. This is so called Guaira Falls or Seven Falls or Sete Quedas in Portuguese along the border between Brazil and Paraguay. This was a beautiful series of 18 massive waterfalls on the Paraná River situated at a point where the river was forced through a narrow gorge. Moreover at the head of falls, the river becomes narrowed abruptly from a width of about 380 meters to 60 meters, creating one of the most potent waterfalls on earth with a flow rate double that of the Niagara Falls.

The whipping water formed a deafening noise that could be heard from 30 kilometer away. For several years, it was a popular tourist attraction and a favorite place among the locals, until 1982 when the Brazilian military blew away the rocks over which the water fell to create a lake for the newly constructed Itaipu Dam. The Itaipu Dam is the biggest operating hydroelectric plant in terms of annual energy generation, generating approximately 100 TWh of power each year that accounts for 75% of the electricity consumed by Paraguay and 17% of that consumed by Brazil. To construct such a gigantic dam some sacrifices had to be made, and one of them was to flood the Guaíra Falls. Amazingly a months before the great flood, thousands of sightseers flocked to the area to see the falls for the last time.

When a group of excited visitors walked over a miserable maintained suspended footbridge, it collapsed immensely under the weight resulting in the death toll of more than 80 people. Therefore as the waters starts to rise, hundreds of people congregated to participate in a guarup, an indigenous ritual in memory of the falls. The inundation took only 14 days, happening during the rainy season when the level of the Paraná River was high. Then on October 27, 1982, the reservoir was fully shaped and the falls had vanished. The Brazilian government later dynamited the submerged rock face of the falls, to encourage safer navigation on the river. The director of the company that built the dam, later issued a statement saying, "We're not destroying Seven Falls. We're just going to transfer it to Itaipu Dam, whose spillway will be a substitute for [the falls'] beauty" however apparently it is impossible to take pictures of the Guairá Falls these days, I’ve collected below pictures from different websites.