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Howard, that one is in Mindo - it was never close to where I live, past or present! It's about 3 hours away from me at the moment, and when I'm in Quito, it's 1 hour distant (then of course I strap on me boots and go tromping through the bush for another hour or so to get there...) To get the shot, I nearly ruined the camera - I was standing in the basin at the bottom of the 50 foot drop of the main falls, shooting upwards. I had to disassemble the dang camera and dry each piece individually before it would work again.

Oddly enough, where I now live I am just 30 minutes distant from Ecuador's four showpiece falls - Agoyan (tallest single-stage, a nearly 40 m single drop), Mantel de Novia (tallest multiple-stage, at 35 m or so), Pailon del Diablo (highest volume multiple-stage), and Machay (comes straight out the side of a cliff) - but since I don't have a car I've never actually had a chance to stop and look at them! It's on my list of things to do in the new year, and I will definitely post the pictures here once I've got them