Embarrass?

I was driving home from a writers conference this summer, taking the back roads, when I came across a sign for Hayman Falls. 

I may not have been to every waterfalls in my fair state, but I thought that I had heard of every one of them. Naturally, I was intrigued and followed the signs to this small parking area. I put on my walking shoes and started up the trail.

A very picturesque river. Apparently it's the Embarrass River. Wonder where that name came from?

Still walking. Did I mention that it was close to 90 degrees out and humid?

Oh, looks like I must be getting close.

Is this it? I believe so. I could have kept walking I suppose. At one point there was a dam somewhere along here and that is probably where the falls came in. The water looked pretty calm though the further upstream I went.

Ok, I wasn't disappointed, though, but perhaps that's why it's called the Embarrass River. But this waterfalls isn't nearly embarrassing as this:

Really? Someone thinks that someone is going to steal this bench from the middle of the woods?

I looked up the Embarrass River on Wikipedia. The French word for obstruction is embarrass. So that would explain that.