the next set of falls was directly off the highway. scenic spot signposts always estimated how long a hike would be, and this one said "two minutes." it took us less than that i think (you could see the falls from the parking lot).

these are Fan Tail Falls:


i suppose these are particularly popular falls since they are directly off the highway. it seems that everyone that visits has to build a cairn. you couldn't turn around without tripping over another cairn. some were elaborate and reasonably sound structures. others were just stacks of river rocks. (there were quite a few folks milling about and i had to wait a few moments to take pictures without other tourists in view).



i wondered if spring snow melt washed the cairns over every year.


is it bad luck to use someone's cairn stones as river fodder?


this was a pull-off somewhere along the highway. you can see one of the one lane bridges and the road continuing into the hills. the higher up and farther from the coast we got, the more the terrain changed from rain forest to this sort of view: