Nicole and have had the opportunity twice now to get out and paddle Town Lake. The launch is across the street from Stephen F. Austin High School and it’s pretty crowded, but there is tons of parking on the road. You can either go North West (aka right) or South East (aka left). Going NW will take you under MoPac Expressway, towards Town Lake Metro Park and the Dam. Going SE will take you towards Auditorium Shores and downtown Austin. We’ve gone both directions and they are equally pleasant paddles.
There is also a tributary that will take you up in to Zilker Park. We saw a bunch of people paddling in and out from the tributary so we paddle up to discover the reason is there is a canoe/kayak rental “stand” in Zilker Park.
Aquatic traffic jam…
A couple of kids were jumping off this pedestrian bridge so we waited and got a few pics of them jumping. All the images are a bit blurry though.
There are turtles everywhere… we happen to see these two swimming below the surface and our camera is waterproof so I jammed it under the water to take a pic. I didn’t think it turned out until I got home and viewed the image on the computer.
I had just paddled under this train tressel when this train started going across. It freaked me out a bit. On our way back another train went over on our way under. Lucky us..
Some of the Austin skyline.
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– Jeremy
