Monday afternoon we decided to go to a fairly legendary central Texas swimming spot. It's Krause Springs and it is located in Spicewood, about 20 minutes from our house. It is a spring fed natural swimming hole that has been a local summertime hang out forever. Neither of us had been there before, so it was definitely time we check it out.
It's really beautiful. The feeling is very "hippie-mellow", no lifegaurds or rules, except no dogs. There's a waterfall, a cliff to jump off of, a rope-swing and tons of natural shady beach spots to chill out. One guy had some random homemade hammock that he rigged around two huge trees and rocked in the sun by the waterfall all afternoon. There was a line of kids at the rope-swing all day, one after another flipping & splashing. The water is pretty chilly, which is a huge bonus (water tends to be really warm after it's been 90+ degrees for over 2 months) and really takes the edge off the blazing hot sun. We read, swam, drank some beers, looked at turtles, ate a picnic, jumped off the cliff (not that cool, kinda hurt a lot) and enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere.
After the sun started to go down and all the kids had gone, Joseph and I each went off the rope swing, twice. It was really fun! Had I been 10 years old, I would have been like one of the kids we watched go on the rope-swing continuously for 5 hours. Here are our splashes (we're both slow with the camera, apparently) from jumping off the cliff and Joseph on the rope-swing.
3 comments:
Looks so fun. How high was the cliff that it hurt to jump off?
That place is beautiful. Sometimes, it's hard to believe those pictures are taken in Texas.
Maybe 15 feet... but I was trying hard not to let my feet hit the bottom, so I pulled them up and landed square on my ASS! The bottoms of my thighs look like I slammed ass first into a brick wall.
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