Today we hooked the trailer up, packed up my kayak and stopped by the marina to borrow another one from friends on b-dock. We are headed to the San Marcos river, which we have tubed for many years, but this time are going to paddle.
The San Marcos is a spring-fed river, and even though we are in a severe drought, it continues to flow with crystal clear, cool water. We put in at City Park here, and first paddled upstream as far as we could go. Then we paddled down stream to the Lion’s Club take-out point and took our kayaks over the 3 rapids there and went a little farther downstream.
As we headed back we got a workout on a couple sections, and in carrying the kayaks back up the rocks around the 3 rapids.
As usual, I like to look for found objects. I would have loved to have found my prescription raybans that I lost last summer on the rapids, but I didn’t. We did however find a couple pairs of flip flops. I found a matched pair of Corona flip flops, one upstream and one downstream, and Monte has claimed these (you can see the first one that I found in the picture above. I hadn’t found its mate yet). I also found a matched pair of little baby flip flops, which we gave to a woman and her baby that were playing in the water when we got back to City Park.
We took lots of pictures. It’s funny that I’ve never noticed how many fish are in the river. I guess all the times we have tubed we didn’t really notice because you aren’t looking down into the river when perched on your tube.
Here is a picture of a water bird striking an odd pose that we encountered along the way…
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