It wasn't until we reached this destination did we realize that the waterfalls source was dried up!!!! ARG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Regardless the photo op was there and we proceeded on this journey regardless. The following pictures were taken at the top of the waterfalls. This was the source of both the Lower Devil's Punchbowl Falls and Upper Devil's Punchbowl Falls.
This picture was taken with the camera on the tripod and me extending the tripod out over the edge.
The following is an interesting read from another website about these Falls
The history of the Devil's Punch Bowl dates back at least some 450 million years (the late Ordovician and early Silurian periods) when materials which form the Niagara escarpment were originally deposited in a large inland sea. At this point in history, corals and other organisms inhabited the area until, as the sea bottom deposits slowly changed to rock, these organisms became fossilized. Approximately 1 million years ago, the area was subjected to four great ice ages. By this time, the inland sea had already retreated and great slabs of ice covered the land. Their effect on the landscape was to either sharpen or expose the escarpment rock face or to bury it with drift material. Following the end of the last ice age there was a period of high water levels. This is what etched the final details into the landscape of the Punch Bowl. The water concentrated into huge streams which had a tremendous capacity to carve out the landscape. One of these powerful streams plunged right over the escarpment at Stoney Creek and carved out what would later become known as the Devil's Punch Bowl. Eventually, there was less water available in the area to continue the powerful stream, and its capacity has been greatly reduced. It has become a landmark that is famous with geologists worldwide for its exposed rock strata.
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