River Road is great on a weekday. Nice pics! Thanks for your service to our children. On May 5, 2016 8:31 PM, "Ron Mc" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Today I met a class of 4th graders at the river, and since I was going to > the river, hauled along a bike. > Since Thanksgiving, the kids have raised rainbow trout from eggs to fry in > a refrigerated aquarium in their classroom. > I head up Trout in the Classroom for the state (volunteer) and have a > dozen schools and a thousand kids involved. It's a bit like herding cats, > but have the teachers here for that... > And it was a beautiful place, a private residence - one of 17 locations > on the Guadalupe tailrace where our Trout Unlimited chapter leases access. > > the kids lined up to get in the cold water - at this spot, 50 degrees, > even in summer, even in drought, which we don't have this year - we should > summer-over 16 miles of fish this year > and release their trout fry > > This isn't about fish - the class put 115 rainbow fry into the river (I > know the odds of one making it to adult, and no need to spell it out). > We're not raising trout here, we're raising conservationists. > Service done, I went back to park at the VFW hall at the top of River > Road, and took off on the bike. > > The ride down to Huaco Springs is about 14 mi one way, and return the same > way. It rolls up and down the bluffs along the river and crosses the river > 5 times. > While most of the river is fast, I only had decent landings at slow spots > - it's all private camps, and access is limited. > The morning started off in the 50s, but sunny and dry, quickly warmed into > the 80s - not complaining. > The beauty of this ride, most of it is enveloped in cypress tunnels, so > it's always 15 degrees cooler in the shade by the river than on the bare > sunny highway. > Had a really nice chat with a couple of roadies who gradually overtook me > - one was on steel. We paced for about a mile and talked about bikes. > A few stops along the way. I was riding the Italian Huffy (and sorry, > phone photos). > Huaco Springs > > Rockin' R > > Ponderosa > > (phone color is a bit off, the red is not quite this lipstick) > about those s. Texas tailwater rainbows - > - we're gonna need a bigger net > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
