These are the falls about ¼ mile up from the wharf and the lodge. Virtually all of the river waters in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland have a distinctive brown color, almost the color of tea. The color is a result of plant pigments in the very organic soil here, the same process by which tea is made without the boiling. The last ice age, about 15,000 years ago, wiped the mineral soils away the thin soil there is now is on the hard bedrock and mostly peat and humus. It is perfectly fine to drink if not polluted by the more familiar means.