Waterfalls

I also like the Huka falls. And those ones you get on the West Coast when it is rainy and cloudy and all you can make out are these white columns of water falling straight down sheer rock slopes.

the swiss valley you refer to is the lauterbrunnen. on one side is staubach falls and the underground falls are trummelbach falls. i've never been but am obsessed with waterfalls.

i think the falls ned refers to may be glenashdale falls.

my favourites i've been to include the falls of kirkaig, eas a' chuil aluinn, achness waterfall, an steall, plodda falls, falls of foyers, falls of orchy, falls of falloch, reekie linn, falls of clyde (all scotland), high force, hardraw force, aysgarth falls (england), aber falls, pistyll rhaeadr, pistyll cain, rhaeadr cynfal, mynach falls (wales). the best i have visited is the barron falls nr. cairns in queensland, aus. the river is dammed and often there's little water but i went after 3 days of non-stop heavy rain :-0...imagine a large british river in spate crashing 285m into a gorge. when i was in america i saw the falls in yosemite valley but there wasn't much water in them.

other falls i would like to visit include: kaieteur falls (guyana), churchill falls, virginia falls (canada), shoshone falls (u.s.), dettifoss (iceland), voringfoss (norway), storforsen (sweden), aughrabies falls (south africa), ruacana falls (namibia), jog falls, cauvery falls (india) and iguacu falls.

the largest falls in terms of flow were the salto das sete quedas on the rio parana but they are now submerged as a result of the itaipu dam :-(

i could talk about waterfalls all day.

In the UK, what we lack in magnitude, we make up for in cuteness. That doesn't just apply to waterfalls, of course. There are lots in Scotland, and the Ingleton Falls in North Yorkshire are rather lovely.

For the big ones - I was genuinely impressed with Niagara Falls itself (if not the town), but the ones I want to see before I die are the Iguazu Falls.

caracas?

For yer honeymoon or just for the hell of it?

- Isadora, I always find these rather spooky because of the infamous Peter Plummley Walker case - the masochistic cricket umpire who was bashed by his dominatrix and dumped into the falls. New Zealans *IS* Twin Peaks sometimes. A good waterfall must have a spooky murder mystery involved.

And also the Victoria Falls are fab, you get soaked from them on the walk towards them, they have even created their own little rain forest, but Im not sure if anyone ever got murdered and thrown into them. Chances are they did.

selfoss is it.

Waterfalls, yes, yes, ADIRONDACKS = WATERFALL HEAVEN!!! We climbed Mount Marcy (repeat this with a broad upstate accent, and it sounds like "Climb Mount Morrissey" ... yes, climb me, pin and mount me like a butterfly, etc. etc.) half by use of a seasonal springbed. Even when the waterfalls are dry, the lovely rock formations they leave behind = CLASSIC.

Niagara Falls = well over rated. You go in a boat. They put a big "waterproof" mac on you, but no matter how good the weather or tight you tie the ties, you come out soaking wet. Driving a boat under a waterfall = SOOOOO not cool. Barrell it or fuck right off.

Oh, and the Canadians think THEY own it, so double fuck off. Grrrrr.

:-) :-) I did exactly the same thing one year. A wonderful, wonderful day. :-)