Parson Falls - Moravia

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Great shots! Is this property posted?
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I do believe that we found this falls today as we traveled along Route 38 from Moravia to Auburn. It was on private property, with a spectacular view from the roadway. It is right in someone's back yard. How incredible for them!! Anyway, I knocked on the door for permission to shoot from their yard, but no one was home, so I snapped a few and left. I will return to get more, but enjoy this one for now.
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Great shot! That must be the lower one...im hoping to get out that way this week.
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redreamer wrote:so i have a query...went to a waterfall here in Moravia yesterday lunchtime that is not on your site.

'Parson Falls' which is on private property.....

only reference i could find on the web was here:

http://www.northeastwaterfalls.com/wate ... um=955&p=0

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http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycay ... oravia.htm

(and they don't have any photos.........) HA!

i took some photos (it was raining and grey yesterday not good shooting weather)....

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standing at the top.....its a LONG way down...... not a LOT of water running (more a cascade at that time)
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the valley below the sides are almost perpendicular....

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(please move this if it is in the wrong place)..... Just wanted to let you know about it.... its quite breathaking... and we had to get there partly by ATV and walking..... shown by the guy my husband works with who lives across the road.......

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I think the view from a distance certainly makes for a great landscape shot.
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This gem is in someone's back yard along route 38 just outside of Moravia. I'm not sure if this is the real Parson Falls or not.

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Nice photo! In 2010 I shot some photos of this one too. I too thought it was parson's falls. Then a friend filled me in that it's not Parson's. It's actually called "Dodty Falls". I know because of the fencing around garden and the telephone line draped across your photo. Parson falls is the next one south-west of this location. And there is a lower Parson's and the upper one. My photo is labeled PF on file, but I corrected the name to Dodty on picture. I stopped here and parked in driveway. Went up to the rear side door and knocked on door to see if I could come back down on weekend and photograph this one? But nobody home, so I shot a few pictures right from porch landing! There is a 6 to 10 foot drop at top, that I didn't see in picture because of the season!
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