Below is another picture of the rushing waters at Great Falls, downriver–I shot the same spot, looking upriver, for the previous post. I didn’t make it all the way across the bridgeway to the overlook viewing the main part of the Potomac here: the ground below gave way to a rising wooden planked area, changing both the direction and the height under our feet, and it threw my sense of balance so badly I was afraid my camera was going to end up in the falls. But this is one of the narrow chutes of water through the rocks that George Washington wanted a way safely around. 