Della Falls is a lofty horsetailing fall dropping 1,443 feet out of Della Lake in the upper Drinkwater Creek basin within Vancouver Island's Strathcona Provincial Park. Though there are technically three distinct vertical portions to the falls, Della isn't truly a tiered waterfall since there are no real pauses in between the vertical sections of the fall (and by proxy neither can it be considered a single-drop waterfall nor truly vertical in any sense). Though not commonly noticed, there are actually two distinct channels to the falls. At the bottom of the first vertical leap, part of the stream branches almost due west while the remaining volume of the creek turns northwest. The falls are fed by the waters of Della Lake, which is in turn largely fed by snow melt and a few small glacial remnants on the nearby peaks. Because the basin harboring the lake is largely composed of solid bedrock, there is not a whole lot of water retention in the soils and as a result Della Creek behaves similar to the waterfalls in Yosemite National Park, running strong in the late spring and early summer but when the seasonal snow has melted off the volume is reduced significantly. By September the falls are not terribly impressive and may slow to a trickle in low snowpack years.
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