San Marcos trip part 1- Aquerena Springs

The forecast said wind so we packed up and went to the Hill Country to go tubing for the weekend. New Braunfels had some flooding early in the week and they closed the river to tubers so we moved over to the San Marcos river which flows out of the Aquerena Spring.

Saturday morning we went over to the Aquerena Spring Education Center (part of Texas State University). They had a great wetland boardwalk where we saw lots of fish, turtles, birds and dragonflies. This hawk was protecting his turf. He flew off when we walked by, but landed again on the same picnic table.We took a glass bottom boat tour around the springs. Caroline is not frooping (a word C created years ago which translates as "throwing up in your mouth" ) in this picture, but is looking through the glass at the spring bottom.

After our "science" morning, we grabbed our tubes and set out for the river. Our float was about an hour and we did it twice before succumbing to hunger and heading back to the hotel for our next adventure.