ekend we visited Bushkill falls in northeastern Pennsylvania.  Our trip began on an ugly looking day in which it looked like it could rain at any minute.  It was a bit of a later start than I would have liked but that happens some times.  It’s only  about a 2½ hours drive from here.

When we arrived the sun came out and pretty much stayed out the whole time.  That’s something we haven’t seen a lot of this spring.  I’m pretty sure we saw all their falls and Molly got to practice with her camera too.

It really is amazing what nature and water can do.

Probably my favorite picture. This is the bottom of the main falls and the sun is that right angle to cause a rainbow in the spray. Also interesting in this area was the ice that was still on some of the stairs. I really am curious how thick that gets in the winter now.

I liked this one too. It’s another of the larger falls in the area and you could actually get pretty close to it.

I’m sure I’ll post more pictures later.

Cassini flew through a geyser like eruption and sensed water vapor and organic materials.  I thought this was pretty amazing news.

I only wish we had more space probes out there exploring

Nature and the universe never cease to amaze me.

Yesterday morning a a gamma ray burst was observed that was so bright it would have been visible to the naked eye.  It became the furthest away object to be visible with the naked eye for a short while and set a record.

Scientists estimated it was 7.5 billion light years away.

Gamma ray burst are the brightest explosions in the universe since the big bang.  They are caused when a when massive stars use up their fuel and collapse into a black hole or a neutron star.

The game commission estimates 180,000 of them have been there. I’ve never seen so many birds on one place. They were not as loud as I expected. I was surprised but it was neat hearing them all.

It was interesting to see them take off and go into formation. It seemed like thousands flew at once but it didn’t seem to make a difference to the way the lake looked. It was still covered with birds.

I had read about it before when I first moved here when loking for things for us to do but we never got over there.
I’m glad we got over there. Even though we didn’t go over there for geocaching we probably would have never went if we didn’t cache because we’ve been there before for caching and knew how to get there. I’m disappointed Molly didn’t take the pictures off her camera yet so I can’t post any.