Waterfall and Leafs (PRSP)

Post by **Brad** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:40 am

Waterfall and Leafs at Platte River State Park.

After sitting at home all week with the crummy weather. It was time to get out and Shoot. Josh and I headed down to Platte River State park. I have not been to the waterfall in 2 decades and Josh had not been there in a long time either.

1. Waterfall

2. Leafs

3. Josh shooting a photo

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:04 am

Here's one I got out there. Nothing too fantastic but was good to get outta the house.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 5:38 am

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 4:09 pm

were you guys taking any pictures of the sunset? I saw a photographer on an overpass taking a picture of the sunset near the platte river...

Damned good pictures guys.

Post by **Brad** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 6:15 pm

Not me... I wish because that sunset was spectacular!

S33 · Post by **S33** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:50 pm

Cool pictures, I had no idea we had landscape like that around here. I may have to check it out sometime.

almighty_tuna · Post by **almighty_tuna** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:55 am

Cool photos! I don't think i've been down to the falls since i was 10yrs old.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:04 am

Thanks guys. Those are gorgeous. Makes me want to get down there yet this fall.

Post by **Brad** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:41 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Makes me want to get down there yet this fall.

Thanks Streets, I think today MIGHT be the last day of fall...

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:39 pm

Well, you know what I mean.

S33, you should get out more often. Omaha is pretty much surrounded on at least three sides by such geography.

S33 · Post by **S33** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:48 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:Well, you know what I mean.

S33, you should get out more often. Omaha is pretty much surrounded on at least three sides by such geography.

Dude, I grew up in the Loess Hills. I've never in my life seen stone landscape with waterfalls. I didn't think the limestone (i think that's what it is) was visible until just south of Rockport.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 9:53 pm

I also heard that tomorrow will be back to cold overcast - so I went out there to take a look myself - I haven't been there since they widened Hwy 50. Just have to say - why the |expletive| didn't you warn us about all those freaking bugs out there.

Post by **Brad** » Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:18 pm

No bugs when we were there?

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:30 am

Brad wrote:No bugs when we were there?

Those fricken Asian Beatles were all over the place. I had a few in the car I tried to get rid of out of an open window and almost had a head on collision.

Any way - here is all that I came home with - color almost all gone after the rain/wind the other day. But thanks none-the-less for getting me out of the office - I really needed to be in the sun for one more day. I heard the other day - we only had one sunny day in the first half of October w-t-f with that?

Post by **Brad** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:31 am

Great Stuff Mark! :thumb:

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:46 am

Thanks Brad - I saturated the |expletive| out of those to get the colors as you can see. I had not recharged the battery for my real camera - had 9 minutes left - so I had to go out with my Sony Cyber-shoot and no Pod. I just found out I cannot change photo speed length on this camera - so it is normal speed. I had to go back and see yours and Wags photos to see what colors were there. I have no idea why I haven't been back there in YEARS. Thanks for the suggestion - I needed the afternoon out.

the1wags · Post by **the1wags** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:48 am

Cool Mark. The beetles must have come out today from the warmth, no bugs there the other day. It is a pretty nice area, glad you got out and about. :)

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:18 am

S33 wrote:Dude, I grew up in the Loess Hills. I've never in my life seen stone landscape with waterfalls.

Then I guess you learned something new.

There are areas of exposed rock outcroppings in the area around Plattsmouth in the south Metro. I'll admit I've never seen these particular waterfalls.

Thanks for the additional photos, Coyote!

Stargazer · Post by **Stargazer** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 4:20 am

I like Platte River so much more than Mahoney... which is so horribly over commercialized. I just wish they had some camping space (other than the teepee's). If you're in to the modern cabin thing... definitely a better place to go than Mahoney.

TechnicalDisaster · Post by **TechnicalDisaster** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 1:50 pm

Stargazer wrote:I like Platte River so much more than Mahoney... which is so horribly over commercialized. I just wish they had some camping space (other than the teepee's). If you're in to the modern cabin thing... definitely a better place to go than Mahoney.

What's wrong with having a lot of activities? My family loves Mahoney soooo much more.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:06 pm

bradley414 wrote:
Stargazer wrote:I like Platte River so much more than Mahoney... which is so horribly over commercialized. I just wish they had some camping space (other than the teepee's). If you're in to the modern cabin thing... definitely a better place to go than Mahoney.
What's wrong with having a lot of activities? My family loves Mahoney soooo much more.

The state parks start to resemble amusement parks. There's nothing wrong with it, and that's why Mahoney is so popular. But it's nice to have other great options in the region that offer a more "pristine" experience.

icejammer · Post by **icejammer** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:06 pm

S33 wrote:Dude, I grew up in the Loess Hills. I've never in my life seen stone landscape with waterfalls. I didn't think the limestone (i think that's what it is) was visible until just south of Rockport.

Actually, there are quite a few places in western Iowa with bedrock outcrops, mainly along the larger streams. If you go to extreme nowrthwest Iowa, you'll find some Precambrian outcrops, some of the oldest you'll find anywhere. I've tried to find a map I saw a long time ago that showed outcroppings in the state, which was really nice to know if you were going to fossil hunt, but to no avail. If you're into geology, there are a number of places in the Loess Hills where you can see a layer of volcanic ash from the Yellowstone eruption about 70000 yrs ago.

Eastern Iowa, on the other hand, is chock-full of places with exposed bedrock.

Post by **Brad** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 5:42 pm

Any Waterfalls Icejammer?

TechnicalDisaster · Post by **TechnicalDisaster** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 6:24 pm

Coyote wrote:Thanks Brad - I saturated the |expletive| out of those to get the colors as you can see. I had not recharged the battery for my real camera - had 9 minutes left - so I had to go out with my Sony Cyber-shoot and no Pod. I just found out I cannot change photo speed length on this camera - so it is normal speed. I had to go back and see yours and Wags photos to see what colors were there. I have no idea why I haven't been back there in YEARS. Thanks for the suggestion - I needed the afternoon out.

Real camera? I thought you only had the cyber shot?

Post by **Brad** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:02 pm

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:17 pm

very clever Brad

Post by **Brad** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 9:21 pm

thenewguy wrote:very clever Brad

I should have waited until tonight and done it in photos shop, it could have looked Awesome!

icejammer · Post by **icejammer** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:13 pm

Brad wrote:Any Waterfalls Icejammer?

Most Iowa waterfalls would be found in northeastern Iowa. There are a few places in western Iowa where a rock outcrop across a river leaves a couple feet drop across part of the channel, but I wouldn't call that a waterfall.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:15 pm

bradley414 wrote:Real camera? I thought you only had the cyber shot?

My 'real camera' is an old Sony F717. I bought the Cyber-Shot a few years ago for portability. Of course my real camera is an ancient Canon AE1. I don't know the last time I dusted that one off.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Oct 20, 2009 10:17 pm

Brad wrote:

Yeah - they really bugged me.

icejammer · Post by **icejammer** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 2:05 pm

Brad wrote:Any Waterfalls Icejammer?

Here's a couple shots of the rock cut near Hitchcock House (Underground Railroad stop) on the Nishnabotna River, just as an example of what I'm talking about in western Iowa:

Approaching chute from upstream

Going thru the chute

Looking back up at the rock ledge, about 3 feet high, just for scale

Post by **Brad** » Wed Oct 21, 2009 4:32 pm

Thanks for the photos. The waterfall in Platte River State Park is only 4' high.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:38 pm

the1wags wrote:Cool Mark. The beetles must have come out today from the warmth, no bugs there the other day. It is a pretty nice area, glad you got out and about. :)

Looks like they waited for my visit:

Asian lady beetles on the march

Pilot-Tribune & Enterprise wrote:Thousands of tiny, winged insects descending upon isolated farmhouses, beating at glass paned windows with delicate bodies, smashing against siding and doors, swarming into any open crevice, blocking out the sun in a black mass of insect doom. That's exactly what Monday afternoon felt like for some Washington County residents. "They're pretty common," said UNL Extension Educator Steve Tonn. "On Monday it was a nice day, so they were flying around looking for a place for protection, and they're attracted to homes and siding. It's not an unusual occurrence."

Asian lady beetles, used as a biological control in the U.S. since 1988, feed on insect pests in orchards, forests and row crops. The beetles are commonly used as a natural pesticide against aphids, scale and other soft-bodied arthropods. The multicolored bugs are native to Asia.

Coyote · Post by **Coyote** » Sat Jun 06, 2015 3:18 pm

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Post by **Brad** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 5:10 pm

Cool, Never knew about Fort Falls.

I have been to Smith, Stair Step, and Berry Falls. Snake River has been on my list, but now it looks like there are two on my list out there.

Smith Falls is cool, largest waterfall in the state. Its fun you can go back in behind the water on the right side of it. The water is really cold, but feels good after you have been out in the canoe for a while.

Berry is neat, on the downstream side of it there is hole that a full sized adult can climb down in and only your head is sticking out above the water. The waterfall is pouring down on top of you too. Lot of fun!

Stair Step is cool because its set back in the trees and different than most of the falls in the Nioabrara area.

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