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TRINITY FALLS

Trinity Falls is a 1.5 h car ride and 25 min hike away from downtown Kingstown. The side road starting at the old Danish school site in Richmond, half a kilometer away from the very end of the road and the Wallilabou River, used to be quite washed out and rough, until a few years ago significant improvements allow you to at least reach a high point from where it adds about 10 of walking to the parking area at the road end, just after crossing a stream bed. The sign there say that it is a 40 min hike - which is only true if you take three 10 min breaks on the way!

The falls are very impressive, the water is warmer than that of other rivers because of hotspring above, and the powerful chute feeding the lower pool looks like trouble - but it isn't. People have been swimming there, in and out of the chute, jumping from above and all, without trouble. BUT water is always trouble at times: I knowm of one incident where a young lady was in trouble at the far eddy behind the chute and had to be pulled out. Clearly, she must have panicked.

There are supposed to be hot spring feeders upstream - I have not yet explored them. And one of these days I want to hike across the island from Georgetown to Richmond, where you follow the Wallibou River down to the falls.
Here is a composite:

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Trinity Falls is a 1.5 h car ride and 25 min hike away from downtown Kingstown. The side road starting at the old Danish school site in Richmond, half a kilometer away from the very end of the road and the Wallilabou River, used to be quite washed out and rough, until a few years ago significant improvements allow you to at least reach a high point from where it adds about 10 of walking to the parking area at the road end, just after crossing a stream bed. The sign there say that it is a 40 min hike - which is only true if you take three 10 min breaks on the way!
	The falls are very impressive, the water is warmer than that of other rivers because of hotspring above, and the powerful chute feeding the lower pool looks like trouble - but it isn't. People have been swimming there, in and out of the chute, jumping from above and all, without trouble. BUT water is always trouble at times: I knowm of one incident where a young lady was in trouble at the far eddy behind the chute and had to be pulled out. Clearly, she must have panicked.
There are supposed to be hot spring feeders upstream - I have not yet explored them. And one of these days I want to hike across the island from Georgetown to Richmond, where you follow the Wallibou River down to the falls. Here is a composite: