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.