March 9, 2015
Water, water, everywhere — weekend rains brought the wet back into the wetlands at the Lost Pines Nature Trails.
Flooded overflow parking lot at the entrance from Riverside Drive.
A fire ant flotilla looking for higher ground.
Picnic Anyone?
There’s a beach out there somewhere.
The paddling trail take-out is lost under the water along with the mud hole.
The Wetlands are on the left of the fence and the main parking lot on the right.
Dale’s Trail berm from the main parking lot to the woods. Wetlands on both sides.
The second entrance to the LPNT by the old boat ramp with water flowing swiftly from this parking area up Dale’s Trail.
Swift flowing water from the old boat ramp parking area into the second part of Dale’s Trail. This is where I had to turn back — the water was too deep.
Where, oh where, is the beach?
Being an official trail trash picker, I just couldn’t resist this shot.
Goodbye mud hole on the picnic loop, thanks to the recent make-over project, which will resume in good weather.
In sloshing along Dale’s Trail in knee high rubber boots, I finally came to water deeper than my boots were high, so I attempted to cross to higher ground on a fallen tree trunk — unfortunately this Western Diamond Back Rattler had the same idea but started from the other end of the log. We met in the middle. The Rattler was kind enough to stay still while I got off a few shots, then being the polite person my mother raised, I gave the snake the log and took to the water! I didn’t notice which way the lizard went, but I bet it didn’t hang around any longer than I did. Definitely a dry crossing traffic jam!