South Llano River State Park

We arrived here Wednesday late afternoon, July 4th. We unloaded and set up camp and started to cook supper. Mom and me made a delicious goulash with venison, cheese, tomatoes, and peppers in it. Nothing like a warm meal when you're camping!! After supper the boys went and fished a little at the river while mom and I cleaned up and set up my air mattress. (Getting back surgery really improves your sleeping arrangements!)

Once the boys got back and we had all showered we sat around for a few minutes looking at the stars, listening to Quint play the guitar, before we went to bed. Later that night at about 12:30 it started raining and dad came by and zipped up all of our rain flies for us. Unfortunately that didn't help Quint at all and his tent ended up flooding and he had to come crawl into my tent. The next morning we discovered that mom and dad's tent had also gotten a lot of water in it so we had to get mom, dad, and Quint's stuff out of both of their tents so it could dry all day.

That day, Thursday, once we had gotten everything squared away at camp we headed off to go fishing and paddling all day. We started around 9:30am and ended around 5pm. It was so beautiful! Everyone who fished caught multiple fish, especially what we had come for, Guadalupe Bass! We finished the paddle at the campground in a swimming hole where lots of people tube and swim. It was over 8 feet deep! Lots of fun. As you can see from the pictures, the river goes back and forth from being like a little creek to a big lake.  It was so strange.  Mom was paddling me in the canoe and we came thru some rapids and she tipped over the canoe. Dad had to rescue us and help us turn the canoe back over.  We saw a lot of deer including a momma and fawn drinking in the river. We saw a flock of turkeys and Quint saw a snake.

We then went back to our camp site where we had wonderful taco soup that mom and Joe had made. Then we bathed up, and sat around listening to Quint play guitar under the stars. We all slept well that night.

Today, Friday July 6th, we all got to sleep in. Dad and Quint made eggs and bacon. Then the boys went off to the river to swim and fish while dad went to the lake to fish and read and mom and I came into town to do some laundry and get a little air conditioning and wifi. Later today we are gonna go tubing and have leftover goulash and soup. Tomorrow we will go to Big Bend National Park to camp for a few days!
-Jamie

Q on the South Llano River

 Joe got the biggest Guadalupe!

A crawdad in the throat of a Large Mouth Bass!

 Mom's Guadalupe!

 I wasn't happy that the Dr. won't let me paddle.