Little Qualicum Falls

It is difficult to express, even through the medium of photographs, the grandeur and beauty of even so modest a watercourse as this one ("modest" in comparison to some other falls and gorges I saw in the course of my travels). The rocks here are very curiously formed, with what seem to be slashes across them as though they were raked first one way and then another by a giant cat's claws. The water is torquoise-coloured when viewed from one angle, but is quite clear, unlike most water in streams in Pennsylvania, which tends to carry a lot of organic sediment and clay, and so is "muddy" and brown or red. I was particularly impressed by the clarity of the water throughout almost all of British Columbia; even the Pacific at Wickanninish and Schooner Cove was astonishingly clear.