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Beyond Mooney Falls, the Havasu Creek literally meanders back and forth between the left and right canyon walls. This means that you need to cross the creek about 7 times before you get to Beaver Falls (about 2.5 miles further downstream). Each of the crossing points is not marked well at all. We spent a lot of time going too far and then needing to back track until we found a likely crossing point.
The picture below is the first crossing point and you actually have two choices: 1) swimming downstream to the left (the family just ahead of us did that) and 2) crossing to the path which is to the right. |
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| When we got this far, we found out what the family already knew! They were here at the rope swing. We all spent about an hour here it was so much fun. |
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As I indicated, there were several crossings after we started hiking downstream again. We ended up taking a lot more time at the swing than we anticipated and started to run low on water and out of food. Although I had my water filter, we were hungry too so, we turned around without seeing Beaver Falls.
On the way back, this picture just seemed so striking as we are in the desert! After we climbed back to the path above Mooney, we saw some caves about 30 feet up on the cliffs to the west. We went back to camp to get our flashlights and explored one that was about 100 feet deep. Bats were there and we were quiet enough to not disturb them. The bats did a great job as we only saw two mosquitoes. |
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