#304 Rainbow Springs State Park

About 6 months or a year prior to this visit at Rainbow India had seen this take part and we had heard about it's pretty so we just assumed that's where we'll winter.

Well turns out it's kind of like booked up forever and we could never quite find a spot for the winter or hardly ever.

I had told a friend I was going to stop by Eustace on the way home so we thought let's see if we can check out Rainbow Springs at some point and when we were nosing around, we found two nights available until we booked it and that gave us our chance to see it.

It was all kinds of pretty.

We laughed because it was a little bit remote whenever you get to the State Park entry sign and you think you're there, as an RV person you're not.

I think when you go in this entrance you can go down and play in the water as a swimmer and you might could rent a kayak.

But the actual RV sites are kind of a big lazy half circle around for 5 or 6 Mile away.

We read the sign and got back on the road and did that big lazy have Circle and finally found the entry and it had a keypad and we didn't have a code so we were lucky we called before they closed.

We got in and got settled and I believe it was only available for one or two nights but we thoroughly enjoyed the visit.

The RV sites for tucked into kind of a wooded area so you had lots of privacy between you and the next person.

But they were still all crammed in there like sardines it was just laid out well enough to where he had some privacy.

Recite had modern hookups of Water and Electric and that was good so the next day we went on a kayaking Adventure.

We use the two-person kayak that we had bought at Costco a while back and we went down to the river and put it in at the boat launch access.

This kayak is really heavy and it's got a small wheel in the back but the sidewalk was 400 ft long so it was so cool that there was a kayak hauler their kind of a two-wheeled one axle cart that you could balance the kayak on.

It's provided by the parks and let me tell you it was a lifesaver.

We put in and started paddling up River towards the source of the water.

This would be the rainbow spring.

An enormous amount of water was flowing from the spring Springs creating this river is best as I can tell and it was just the prettiest water ever.

I think it's like the water is just so clear and you can see the fish and then it's got a white Sandy Bottom sometimes so it just looks like you're in an aquarium.

It's also the way that Sun reflects off of white bottom but it makes the water look very blue and sometimes turquoise but again very their pretty.

There was a little bit of current to paddle against but it's always best to do that first and then you can drift back. We paddled Upstream about a mile to where it appeared that the source was and they were people swimming and all that so all along the way we kept noticing real estate where people live there and we sort of thought men they really have got it made but something tells me it's a little pricey.

I took pictures of birds and why eating birds and tried to get some pictures of the fish but it was just a really nice paddle.

I did sort of a strange thing with a wasp rescue.

Wasps have a tendency to sting humans so we think of them as mean and evil and awful and should be squished. We were paddling and I saw a wasp floating on the water struggling and you got to realize if you're a wasp and you're in the water and your wings are wet you will sooner or later you get tired and die but you really can't fly away from that problem.

It first I paddled by and then I had some sympathy and I went back with the intent to rescue a wasp. I was able to using a tip of my paddle or maybe it was the end of a tree limb I gave him something to climb up Farm and then we went over towards the edge of the river and I placed him up on a tree limb and he crawled off the paddles and onto the limb and began to dry his wings. I could tell he was going to be okay and we left the area and it felt good to do a nice thing for such a simple creature. The thought that had gone through my mind as reflects soon as I released him as soon as his wings dried off, he would be just as likely as anything to come up and sting me right in the forehead. I'm certainly grateful that he didn't but it did cross my mind that it could have been kind of an ungrateful creature that just has a way about him that's hard to change.

When we got all the way to the source of the water it was really just a turn around and go by but it was a really easy paddle back because it was all going with the flow of the river.