Have you read the viral post about waterfalls within a 2-hour drive of New Orleans? If you have and got excited about it like myself and others on Social Media, you have pinned, shared, commented, liked, or whatever to add it to your bucket list.
However, most of us add it, look at the pictures, and say that it would be awesome but don’t act. I wanted to go, needed to find someone else willing to go, and was suspect because well, let’s face it. I found this on Facebook.
With the weather working out and a friend to go with, we took off for an adventure on 12/6/2019 to seek the waterfalls! 
Not focusing on hiking or various terrains but more just waterfalls, I put on some shoes, jogging pants, a shirt, and my sunglasses and head out! My friend, on the other hand, had a shirt, jeans, shoes, and a little more prepared a backpack!
After picking her up, she tells about all the comments and findings she has done on social media like you have to put four dollars in the honor box in four one-dollar bills. Still hills, deep gorges, and nature not clicking in my head. I have a cell phone, sort the money thing out at the last gas stations we stop at before we 
arrive and bam! We will walk up to some pretty impressive waterfalls.
We park to get out, and there is a cute couple with matching outfits they got from an urban outfitter. Then this other guy who is like birdwatcher / outdoors with his camo outfit, binoculars, first aid kit, and whatever else he packed for his hike. I should have sounded alarms but still no clue about what I am about to get in or a worry.
Just after entering Clarks Creek, your cell coverage dies! Do keep in mind this is a hike, and it is natural, and no one should expect a cell tower out there. So no cell phone for maps still committed well because they have signs to point you in the direction of the waterfall on the natural trail but not the primitive. We discover onthe way to waterfall number one that we have the wrong shoes for this type of activity, and it was a workout.
Keeping our search up on our way to the last two waterfalls four and five we get off the path a bit after seeing the waterfall because we were not sure if we saw both waterfalls as some of the waterfalls at this time of year are dried up as a result of low water lives in the river.
When we noticed we got turned around, and it may not even be the primitive trail we were on, but just on a path, we were making I look at her backpack and say damn! You are not Dora because she has everything in that damn backpack! My friend laughed and pointed out that I didnt have a map or compass either so. We were equally prepared and equipped. We teamed up, made some excellent decisions, climbed this 95-degree high hill to get back up to flat land to find our way out of the gorge where the river was and back on flat ground. We make some more practical sense of direction decisions and found our way back to the nature trail. Then I see a garbage can. The garbage can is a clue that both you are on the correct path and that a map and a sign are close. An even more exciting discovery was the word parking and a direction. I was beaten from the adventure and way underprepared for this hike. However, I would soon realize that I would have not only a longer than expected walk back to the parking, but it to would also be on an uphill battle!
Man, after that adventure, I need a shirt that says I conquered Clarks Creek and found the waterfalls!
I would highly encourage anyone to make the adventure. It is beautiful, and also, if you are close enough to Clarks Creek or somewhere close and you are considering traveling and going on hiking or sightseeing tours, this will help your experience and make you more prepared.
