Botanic gardens and another waterfall

 Strangely in Morgantown every single person I met without exception told me how wonderful my accent was. They could listen to me for hours apparently. It was funny because nobody has said that on this trip yet. I don't think they get many foreigners in Morgantown West Virginia. Folk were very friendly and chatty. Charlie thought I had been abducted as it took so long for me to reappear from the gas station when I was paying for fuel because I was treating them to my adorable accent.

First stop today was the West Virginia Botanic Gardens. These are a bit different to the average botanic gardens. It is situated in an old reservoir and instead of several formal gardens it has some small areas set out as gardens and the rest of the site is a sort of nature reserve come wetland.

There were some nice touches such as the fairy area where you are encouraged to build houses for the fairies. There is also the remains of a dam which diverted water from a stream into the reservoir. Whilst we were there a bunch of children on a nature camp were having a great time splashing around it.

Some of the trails required a bit of fording of streams. No trouble when you have previously climbed a waterfall.

There were a lot of different habitats and even some sculpture.

Pimple and I found some cool seating too.

There were plenty of bugs around posing.

We carried on through the rolling countryside to Valley Falls. A pretty series of waterfalls on the Tygart Valley River. Surprisingly few people were there. The falls are next to a very posh private lake with fancy houses all around it. You have to drive all around the lake to get to the falls entrance and I bet that annoys the hell out of them. There are lots of notices telling you not to go anywhere near their lake. It makes you want to jump in although as Charlie pointed out they would probably shoot you.