Colorado Bend State Park 5-23-08

We went up to Colorado Bend State Park again this weekend, this time camping with the Cecils at a river walk-up site. When we first showed up we found out I had reserved a drive-up site, which are 100-200 feet from the water and up and out of the flood plain. Luckily someone holding a walk-up cancelled (the whole place was booked up otherwise), and since we showed up early, we got to grab our choice of the whole batch (#26 is a good one). The drive-up sites are actually a bit more expensive, supposedly due to the convenience of being able to pull your car right up to them, but they're just not as cool as the ones right next to the river. The weather was hot and humid all weekend, but thanks to a steady supply of wind we were able to have a great time hiking to Gorman Falls, swimming in Spicewood Creek, and playing bocce in front of the campsite.

Here's a picture and video from the falls:

Rummy goes to the pound

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Dyed springs

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Opening artesian well

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Introducing dye into monitoring well above Comal Springs

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Comal springs at Landa Park, New Braunfels

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Cecil's west campus tornado

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40k Tourney at Battleforge

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Colorado Bend State Park 5-02-08

We went out to Colorado Bend State Park this weekend to camp at one of their primitive sites for a night. We really lucked out on the weather as it was clear, sunny, cool in the daytime, but not too cold at night. It was a little breezy to swim but I might go on the next trip. The river was actually pretty shallow, maybe 3-4 feet at the deepest part out in front of our campsite. We hiked past a few taken spots out to possibly the most distant primitive site, which was off a nice ways from the other sites, on the river side of the trail with a great open view of the colorado and the bluffs across the way. The site was relatively clean and ant-free with a path down to the water. I tried to fly fish a bit from the edge, but I'm totally shitty at it and only managed to snag a tree limb or two. Next time its Zebco or no go. There's got to be plenty of catfish in the river; in any case, something was biting - we could hear the splashes echoing off the canyon in the middle of the night. That and like a shit ton of owls taking turns calling each other out from their respective perches. C2 took most of the photos, including a bunch of all the different critters we came across.

Breaking Camp

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