On Lhavit's infamous Trail of Waterfalls, the most prominent feature is perhaps Rainbow Falls. This location, about a mile walk from the path's beginning, is considered one of the city's most premier fishing spots. The waterfall itself is a large drainage coming down off the Sartu Peak, directly from a semi-permanent glacier towards the top of the Peak.
A small lake at the base of the Falls is rich with fish, namely Sartu Rainbow Trout, which are responsible for the name of the Rainbow Falls. Their iridescent rainbow scales glitter beneath the water, reflecting light back up to the surface, giving the lake and Falls a faint rainbow sheen. After living five years in the stream and lake, the trout swim to the sea becoming steelhead, migrating up and down the falls to fatten up in the salt water of the Western Suvan.
Once they've grown large enough, after another two years out in the ocean, they make the trip back in, migrate up the Sartu drainage, and spawn along the stream where they die. The Sartu Rainbow Trout are a popular sport fish among the Lhavitians, and Rainbow Falls is once of the best places to either watch the steelhead migration up and down the Falls, or to catch a trout or two in some of its more sedate pools.
The Falls itself are an easy climb for fish, being made up of three main parts with resting pools between the sections. Water vapour is always filling the air from he gentle roar of the tumbling water, and when light hits the Falls a rainbow of colour can often be seen, adding to the shimmer already present when the Rainbow Trout are living in the lake. It is a spectacular sight, and perhaps oddly enough, the location of a great many marriage proposals.
Surrounding the viewing area off the Trail of Waterfalls is a park-like setting made up of several picnic tables, all of which were hand-carried in parts in order to be set up, as well as several benches and fish cleaning stations. The fish cleaning stations are simply just posts sunk into the ground with nails driven in them where fisherman can hang their catch, gut them, and neatly wash away the offal by a handy bucket provided at each post, which can then be dipped into the water and used to wash down the fish.
Visitors are expected to pack any picnic leavings and take their trash back with them when they come to view the Falls; there are no containers for trash, so it needs to be disposed of back in the city. However, there are often one or two firepits that have been used to dispose of picnic remains, or to keep warm in cooler weather.
Location credit: Haeli
A small lake at the base of the Falls is rich with fish, namely Sartu Rainbow Trout, which are responsible for the name of the Rainbow Falls. Their iridescent rainbow scales glitter beneath the water, reflecting light back up to the surface, giving the lake and Falls a faint rainbow sheen. After living five years in the stream and lake, the trout swim to the sea becoming steelhead, migrating up and down the falls to fatten up in the salt water of the Western Suvan.
Once they've grown large enough, after another two years out in the ocean, they make the trip back in, migrate up the Sartu drainage, and spawn along the stream where they die. The Sartu Rainbow Trout are a popular sport fish among the Lhavitians, and Rainbow Falls is once of the best places to either watch the steelhead migration up and down the Falls, or to catch a trout or two in some of its more sedate pools.
The Falls itself are an easy climb for fish, being made up of three main parts with resting pools between the sections. Water vapour is always filling the air from he gentle roar of the tumbling water, and when light hits the Falls a rainbow of colour can often be seen, adding to the shimmer already present when the Rainbow Trout are living in the lake. It is a spectacular sight, and perhaps oddly enough, the location of a great many marriage proposals.
Surrounding the viewing area off the Trail of Waterfalls is a park-like setting made up of several picnic tables, all of which were hand-carried in parts in order to be set up, as well as several benches and fish cleaning stations. The fish cleaning stations are simply just posts sunk into the ground with nails driven in them where fisherman can hang their catch, gut them, and neatly wash away the offal by a handy bucket provided at each post, which can then be dipped into the water and used to wash down the fish.
Visitors are expected to pack any picnic leavings and take their trash back with them when they come to view the Falls; there are no containers for trash, so it needs to be disposed of back in the city. However, there are often one or two firepits that have been used to dispose of picnic remains, or to keep warm in cooler weather.
Location credit: Haeli
