Rocky Falls

Going still further down the Current River, Rocky Falls is very Johnson Shut-In-ish. There was a racoon in the parking lot too. Oh - we also saw another deceased armadillo on the drive - once again, we aren't sure if Missouri has armadillos - we just know it had them once.

The next stop was Powder Mill. A rocky beach acts as a boat launch, and Jill went wading.

Continuing on, we reached Blue Spring, the deepest spring in Missouri at over 300 feet. The camera doesn't do justice to the deepness of the blue color. Jill said she only had seen blue like this once before - at Crater Lake. The water is also very clear.

The spring produces 87 million gallons of water a day - the water from it bent the underwater plants and moved quickly downstream.

There were ripples in the water. Some were due to water bugs but others didn't have any obvious source - the water from below?