Natural Falls State Park – Oklahoma

Overnight the rain stops and the skies clear resulting with the temperatures again dipping down below freezing. Sleeping in the camper while the camper temperature drops into the forties is very restful as we remain warm under a pile of blankets. At daybreak we turn on the heat to warm our camper up from the low 40’s to above 60. Once the cabin warms we are up and enjoy our morning coffee followed by a hot breakfast.

After breakfast the skies again cloud over which pleases Wells since on the to do list is photograph the waterfall. Waterfalls are much easier to capture on cloudy days verses sunny ones. We hike down to the base of the falls staying on an elevated platform. The whole platform moves slightly whenever anybody walks about. This makes photographing the falls more difficult since Wells uses a tripod and long shutter speeds to capture the flowing water. After several photos we head back to the camper where we leave the photo equipment.

Without the burden of the photography stuff we head out to hike a longer trail and enjoy having the park almost to ourselves. On the trail we see only one other person and that was when we were at the end of the trail.

Now back the trailer Wells begins editing his photos. They are of poor quality due to the slight movement of the tripod on the shaky observation platform. Even with the poor photo quality the falls are beautiful so he posts the photos in spite of the quality.