Great Falls

On Tuesday, Tafanie took us to Great Falls, Maryland.  Being that it was a sunny day, we got Isabella all sunscreened up before we headed down the trail to the falls.

Then off we went!

One of the many Potomac tributaries was on the south side of the trail…

…and a canal that had been built in the early 1800’s was on the north side of the trail.

There was a tavern built in 1831 on the canal, just 3 years after construction had begun on the canal in 1828.

The canal had many locks boats would have to travel through.

They even had some scenic tour boats when the canal was operational.

We then headed down the trail to Great Falls.  The trail crossed several tributaries of the Potomac.

Chuck was showing Isabella the river stream below.

We crossed over another tributary that had some waterfalls.

Then we reached the end of the trail where we could see Great Falls.

Tafanie said the water was not flowing nearly as hard now…

…as when they had been here back in June.

I don’t think I would want to be crossing it even now though.

You could see the Virginia side of the falls from where we were standing.  Hello Virginia!

It was getting to be a very hot day, but Isabella hung in there with us:

It was a great way to spend the day with some of our “babies”: