That's the coxing swimming hole, isn't it!!

Yup. Pretty cool out there right now!


There are a couple trees down alongside the river, one which is laid out JUST upstream of the bridge. Closer to the road is a sad one - two trees uprooted and the pretty moss beds around their bases too. They are in a section that people would use to go wade into the stream where the foliage opens up - if you were standing at the sign by the barn, the downed trees would be about 20 feet east, at the river edge. "Terrain Change"

Wow. thanks for posting, Terrie!

wild pic, thanks for posting. I hope the bridge itself is okay.

GO

Seems bridge suffered no damage from what I could see. Water crested about 18 inches below(in my estimate, which may be innacurate).

Terrie, the first time I saw your photo I didn't realize what I was looking at, now I do, unbelievable!!!

Yeah - it was pretty cool!


For those who don't recognize where the photo is... It is the Split Rock swimming hole. Photographed from the bridge, looking to the northwest.

The waterfall location is the lower right corner, and you can see the west side of the "channel" or rock. If you look just left of the small green tree, you can see the small boulder that sits atop the formation.

Here are some more:

From the bridge, looking north


High water!


#1 Wave cresting over rock(bridge location is the in dark background)


#2 Same wave continuing to crest over rock. It was so impressive to see the water rushing through, with waves crashing over this rock(the one shown in the original posts photo, located on the west side of the channel, where people sunbathe and picnic)



West Side of bridge, show the water level rose enough to cover parts of meadow and flood into this section

I swam in it a day later, and although it didn't look like this anymore, the water was definitively the highest (and fastest) I had ever seen it.

We used to have the "earliest in" bet every year and I doubt it was spring thaw temps, but I also expect it was a bit cool. You must be a tough cookie, Mim.

I'm roadtripping out West and am almost bummed about missing out on the swimming hole being the deepest. You could probably safely jump from anywhere around the top!

well, more water got added today....It stormed hard all last night, and I visited Spit Rock early today. It was almost as high as from last week, and possibly even higher!

Last week, I saw the entire east side of channel was covered with water, and running off the end into the lagoon section. But this morning, the east side was POURING - HARD - over into the lagoon. It was a powerful waterfall in itself!

On the west side, the lagoon level is up covering where the grapes are. The flat "patio" of rock at the lagoon is underwater by maybe a foot(I estimate).

The only thing that was "less" than last week was that there was no flooding across the carriage road just west of the bridge, which there was last week. But, I wonder if this is due to having some of the debris cleared away that had piled up just south of the bridge...

It stopped raining(hard) about 8am, so by now the level is probably back down, but I can tell you that it is really a spectacular sight to have the entire rock "picnicing area" submerged with aggressively running water. Add the morning mist and it is really stellar!

Here's a video of Split Rock from yesterday afternoon:

Split Rock...rockin

Thanks Evan.

That's about what it looked like the day after Irene went by. It was impossible to swim in, even as hard as one could try. There were people jumping off and the current just took them downstream really fast. The water was 'cooler' than usual (in more ways than one!).