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Mosquito Falls
On the hike to Mosquito Beach in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, you come across Mosquito Falls. There is no official way down to the river below the falls, and how can you take a waterfall picture without getting down to the river? Then I found that someone had piled 5 rocks on top of each other just below the cliff to the left. With some trepidation about the stability of the rock-pile, I dropped down and then brought down camera and tripod.
I have found I cannot often take pictures of waterfalls without falling in at some point. After doing that and getting both feet wet, and in the process getting this shot, I found to my dismay that there was no way to jump back up the way I had come down, without someone to pull me up from above. Fortunately after about 10 minutes of trying in vain, I found an alternate, albeit muddy "trail" back to the hiking path and from there on to the beach.
As I always say, "Whatever it takes..".
Mosquito Falls
On the hike to Mosquito Beach in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore, you come across Mosquito Falls. There is no official way down to the river below the falls, and how can you take a waterfall picture without getting down to the river? Then I found that someone had piled 5 rocks on top of each other just below the cliff to the left. With some trepidation about the stability of the rock-pile, I dropped down and then brought down camera and tripod.
I have found I cannot often take pictures of waterfalls without falling in at some point. After doing that and getting both feet wet, and in the process getting this shot, I found to my dismay that there was no way to jump back up the way I had come down, without someone to pull me up from above. Fortunately after about 10 minutes of trying in vain, I found an alternate, albeit muddy "trail" back to the hiking path and from there on to the beach.
As I always say, "Whatever it takes..".