We had a fabulous trip for our 15th year anniversary. Caleb found a place to stay on Lake Buchanan and it was lovely. After dropping the kids off in Salado and enjoying a fish fry with Bill and family, we stopped by HEB in Burnet to stock up and then arrived at Lakeside Lodge where we enjoyed spending the evening on the pier. The lake breezes were amazingly cool.
Saturday, we woke up and had a super yummy breakfast. Then we headed out on our two man kayak into the windy chopping waves. We paddled up shore into a creek, we went under a bridge and found our own backdoor of a small waterfall where we waded around for a while. We didn't bring the camera but later got out on the bridge and took a picture of somebody else's kayak in the same spot.
After lunch and cleaning up we headed to a Hill Country winery where we sat around a bunch of barrels. The grapes were pretty and we tried 3 red and 3 white all from Texas and the 'estate.' It was fun but I think vineyard tours have been marked off my life list. I'd go with friends but won't need to seek them out :)
We grabbed some dinner (at HEB) and went to Inks Lake State Park. Neither Caleb or I had been there. We rode our bike for a few minutes, my knee was still too stiff to ride much.
We hiked a bit and then sat in the shade chilling until the Starry Night hike.
Here we are on a group interpretive hike around the lake from dusk to 10. It was fun to be out and learn about stars but the mosquitos were really bad!
Sunday morning we had our own breakfast out on the pier before heading to the Canyon of the Eagles. We did a little hiking, added to our bird count (35 different species total) and started getting hot.
We had a nice lunch in their Overlook restaurant. It is a nature preserve as well as resort.
This is a show picture showing our fabulous view as well as my healing knee!
Next we went back to Inks Lake for some swimming. We didn't take the camera but I got this off the web. It was so lovely. There were tons of people and dogs at the waterhole with kids jumping off cliffs. We climbed over the first smallest waterfall and it was like we were in our own world. Cool breeze, warm sun, running water. We floated in private pools and scampered around for a while and decided it was almost as cool as Wadi Shab in Oman.
We came back to our lodge for the evening. The wildflowers were just gorgeous. We had dinner in the room and watched a James Bond movie.
Monday morning we woke and had another yummy breakfast from our friendly hosts.
We took a quick kayak trip down the shore this time.
And after enjoying the great breeze we packed up and headed back to Austin. We had a wonderful getaway.
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