Falling Waters State Park: Falling Waters Sink is a 100-foot-deep, 20-foot-wide cylindrical pit into which flows a small stream that drops 73 feet to the bottom of the sink. The water's final destination is unknown.
We lived in Florida most of our lives and experiencing this was inexpressible. This was our first stop for the night before driving to Alabama. We planned on camping for the night and to our luck we did this trip right in the middle of tropical storm Barry.
Tropical storm Barry brought winds and rain which gave volume to the falls. We went hiking and met a park ranger. He said in all his years, he has never seen the falls with that much water. He was also taking pictures and shared with our excitement.
Most of the hike was blocked off due to repairs from Hurricane Michael, which struck the panhandle in 2018.
We hiked through the concrete walkway and boardwalk to view more of the falls. Wiregrass and Terrace Trail was closed.
After some walk we figured it was a good idea to set up camp before rainfall started. We drove to our camp site. We uploaded the essentials; tent, chairs, and cooler. Then every campers ultimate fear, happened to us...
This is a picture of our camp site during a massive down pour.
Not only did the rain flooded our camp site, our camp site was the ending flow of all rain that came from the other camp sites. Our camp site sloped down hill, so it made sense for the rain to come to our camp site. We were drenched in water and waited for the rain to settle. After some time, the rain did not settle, we figured this was the effect of tropical storm Barry. Since we didn't have the equipment to set up in a flooded area, we decided to find a local hotel, where we could stay the night.
This ended our time here at Falling Waters State Park but I knew as we left, we will come back again. This time when they repaired the trails and not during a tropical storm.
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