{"id":6162,"date":"2023-01-27T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2023-01-28T17:53:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T17:53:29","slug":"drone-hobbyist-films-a-rare-reverse-waterfall-in-southwestern-utah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/drone-hobbyist-films-a-rare-reverse-waterfall-in-southwestern-utah\/","title":{"rendered":"Drone Hobbyist Films a Rare Reverse Waterfall in Southwestern Utah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nL-PcRaecLU\" width=\"740\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n\u201cReverse\u201d waterfalls are considered rare events.\u00a0 The phenomenon occurs when a fierce updraft of wind \u2013 typically raging at 60 mph or more \u2013 reverses the downward direction of the waterfall, spraying a long and smoky plume of mist that wafts skyward.\u00a0 It\u2019s an optical illusion but the sight of a waterfall seemingly flowing upward and defying gravity makes for a compelling \u2013 and to some,\u00a0 mystical \u2013 visual experience.\u00a0 National parks in several countries, including Brazil, India, Japan and Australia, regularly draw tourists hoping to witness this unusual phenomenon.\u00a0 But for the most part, actual evidence of reverse waterfalls has been limited to still photos and grainy hand-held video footage shot from a great distance.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, R.J. Hooper, an avid recreational drone flier, managed to shoot a lengthy zoom video capturing a reverse waterfall in close up.\u00a0 A long-time resident of <a href=\"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/utah\/\">Utah<\/a>, Hooper decided to visit one of America\u2019s best-known reverse waterfall sites \u2013 the cliffs at Kayenta, in the southwestern part of the state.\u00a0 His timing was fortuitous.\u00a0 Water only flows over the cliffs at Kayenta after a period of sustained and heavy snow and rainfall.\u00a0 Fortunately, this year\u2019s monsoon season in southwestern Utah had delivered just the deluge needed.\u00a0 And while the winds at Kayenta aren\u2019t always fierce \u2013 they were on the day Hooper decided to visit.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with reporters, Hoopers said it was a challenge keeping his drone steady in the blustery conditions at Kayenta that day.\u00a0 In fact, he\u2019d only seen a reverse waterfall a few times previously, largely because the winds in the area weren\u2019t always so strong.\u00a0 Hooper\u2019s online video \u2013 first posted on his Facebook page and YouTube before it was picked up by media outlets worldwide \u2013 features images captured at various distances.\u00a0 His drone circles the cliff overhead for about a minute, then zooms in and out from the waterfall as it streams backward, spewing mist and foam in a long wispy trail.<\/p>\n<p>Utah\u2019s Kayenta cliffs aren\u2019t the only site of a reverse waterfall in the United States.\u00a0 Another notable one is found at Mount Konahuanui in Oahu, Hawaii, but it\u2019s only visible for a few seconds at a distance from a nearby highway.\u00a0 India\u2019s best-known reverse waterfall is located in the Naneghat jungle region, a good three hours by car from Mumbai.\u00a0 The area is so remote that only avid trekkers claim to have witnessed it.\u00a0 In Japan, reverse waterfalls typically occur at the Shiretoko National Park in Hokkaido.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy to get to and open to tourists, but it takes an intrepid visit by boat below the area\u2019s sheer cliffs to get close enough to see the Park\u2019s reverse waterfall in action.\u00a0 Not many sign up for that voyage.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s why Hooper\u2019s video is so noteworthy.\u00a0 It allows even the most sedentary among us to witness an intriguing natural phenomenon that\u2019s been whispered about but rarely seen and documented beyond word of mouth.\u00a0 It\u2019s just one more example of how drones, even those flown by recreational operators, can enrich our experience of the world we live in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff \u201cReverse\u201d waterfalls are considered rare events.\u00a0 The phenomenon occurs when a fierce updraft of wind \u2013 typically raging at 60 mph or more \u2013 reverses the downward direction of the waterfall, spraying a long and smoky plume of mist that wafts skyward.\u00a0 It\u2019s an optical illusion but the sight of a waterfall seemingly flowing&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/drone-hobbyist-films-a-rare-reverse-waterfall-in-southwestern-utah\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dronevideos.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}