Balmoreah, Texas(small town in SW Texas)
We have spent the past 3 days at Balmoreah State Park. They have the most interesting HUGE spring fed pool/lake that is always 78 degrees and has tons of interesting fish. It is the size of a small lake, but is surrounded by pool decking and cement. They say that it cycles through 15 million of water each day that magically comes from underground. CRAZY..I know.
This was the morning temperature...14 degrees when we woke up in Southern New Mexico. We were not able to dump our tanks because the latch was frozen...thankfully our pipes did not burst. We were thankful that the next day the temperature soared to 70 degrees.
I had to include a picture of our sweet girl, Abby. She has been the best traveler.
Benjamin is ready to snorkel. The boys spent several hours snorkeling each day.
Bradley gave his wet suit a try and liked it!! He is ready for the ocean.
I guess Texas still believes in high dives...the boys loved it.
Here are a couple of pictures of the pool. I think that the locals thought we were crazy swimming in 70 degree weather. It felt like a heat wave to us. We had the pool to ourselves, besides the scuba divers.
This park has great views of the rolling hills of Texas...other than that...Texas has been pretty flat with lots and lots of oil drilling. Our fact book said that Texas produces 100 million barrels of oil everyday! WOW!
Big news of the 2nd day was that I(Rachelle) actually got in the water and snorkeled for exactly as long as it took me to swim from one side to the other. As many of you know, I am very scared of fish and so it took me a LONG time to work up the courage to jump in. I am trying to be more adventurous.
Tomorrow we head to San Antonio, Texas. We are looking forward to exploring the city.
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