A waterfall forgotten?

There’s hardly any parking at all—I just parked by the side of the narrow road and hoped no truck came by and grazed my car—but judging from the amount of litter, the waterfall on Birchall Road in Ellenville seems to be a favorite hangout.

Yes, sadly, there’s litter everywhere. Plastic bags, soda bottles, graffiti, you-name-it, and there was even a small, inflated beach ball floating on the pool at the foot of the falls when I came. It made the place less idyllic and more like a forgotten part of town.

Indeed, while reviewing my footages on my computer, I noticed a man standing in the bushes watching me while I flew my drone. (You can see it on the video at the start of the second song at 2:30.) But on closer inspection it looked more like plastic bags caught in a tree and shaped like a man wearing a hoodie and jeans.

Then, again, examining the shape even closer, it looked like it has a face. A “creepy monkey” according to my daughter when I showed it to her. A cryptid!

I can only wish. As you never know after spending so much time in the Shawangunks and the nearby Catskills when Bigfoot might show up…

Seriously, I can only wish that visitors remembered to always take with them what they bring in…