Day 4 Lake Buchanan

 

On Wednesday we took off north to Lake Buchanan to take the the Vanishing Texas River Cruise.  A kind stranger asked us to take their picture and returned the favor for us.  Too bad I forgot to force the flash to go off, but at least you can tell it’s us.  The boat we took is behind us.  It had an open air covered top deck and and air conditioned lower level.

We had lovely weather and pretty much had the river to ourselves, with the exception of some birds like osprey, ring-billed gulls, and even a few bald eagles.  There are some eagles that winter here on Lake Buchanan, although the guides were a bit surprised to see them this early.  With the views we saw, I don’t blame them!  I didn’t expect to see them so the long lens was at the house.  I did get a photo, but them mostly look like specs in the sky.  On one photo at 100% though, you can see the white head on the bird.

 

We sat up top near the front of the boat near the doors to the front lookout.  This proved to be a double edged sword.  JHP’s favorite place was peering over the edge of the railing, but to do this, John had to put his little feet up on the lower rail that was an inch or so above the deck.  Daddy didn’t like this so we spent most of the rest of the cruise telling John to NOT to that.  This combined with non-listening and not enough entertainment value for a two year-old made for a long trip.

 

Besides the eagles, the other highlight of the cruise was the waterfalls of Fall Creek.  The vineyard of the same name is located on the west side of Lake Buchanan.  We didn’t make it over there, but we could see the vineyards from the boat.

 

On our way back to the house, we stopped at Buchanan Dam.   And I didn’t get the shot of the front of the dam either.  That would have required me to have the camera out and ready as we came round the bend.  That didn’t happen.  We were hoping we’d get a closer look.  It was pretty disappointing.

 

After a good nap, Wednesday night we went to eat some BBQ that was OK and headed back the park from JHP to play on the playground.  Naps were something we really tried to set time aside for.  John did nap well all week, although we did have to fight the getting-out-of-bed bug early in the week. 

-EBP-