Rock Island State Park

July 21, 2007

I had to get out and ride today for a couple of reasons.  First, after a couple of weeks of temperatures in the 90's and humidity to match it has cooled off a little.  The forecast for the next couple of days calls for temperatures in the 80's and lower humidity.  It won't last, it never does here this time of year, so I'm going to enjoy it while I can.  As a matter of fact, heading down the road this morning in a mesh jacket I was actually a little bit cool!

The second reason I had to get out and ride is that I ran across a web site on the internet at This Page that said there are 589 waterfalls in the state of Tennessee.  Admittedly many of them are wet-weather water falls and others are on private property.  Regardless, since I have seen about 3 of them in my life I decided to do something about that.  I headed out this morning for Rock Island State Park northeast of McMinnville, TN at Rock Island, TN to take some waterfall photographs.  One of them was hard to photograph without hiking down (straight down!) to the river because of trees, and I have way too many years and cigarettes under my belt to do much hiking so I took what I could.  The other waterfall, named Great Falls, is accessible by road so I got some good pictures of it.  The best of the bunch are shown below.