Glass Bottom Boat

Today, our friend Sarah treated us to a special "adventure trip".  She took us to the Glass Bottom Boat tour in San Marcos, TX at Spring Lake.  Here are the girls in front of the boat we went out on for our tour.

This is a bald cypress tree at the park.

The girls enjoyed standing next to the trees.

There were lots of cool places to take cool pictures.

Natalie refused to sit down, she did not want to get dirty.

We finally convinced her to pose with her sister.  I love this picture of the girls.

Here is Miss Riley.  She is growing up so fast.

She asked me to take her pictures with the butterfly paintings.

Here is Riley in front of the original underwater theater.  This place was fascinating and was one of the first amusement parks in Texas.

Here they are posing.

We finally got to get on the boat.  There was this long wooden box down the middle of the boat with a big glass bottom.  All the boats are made of wood and not fiberglass.

This is what it looked like below us.  Not that we needed to look through the glass.  The water there was so clear you could see straight to the bottom without the boat.  The entire lake is fed through underground springs.  The log on the bottom of the lake is over 100 years old!

Here is the view out the side of the boat.  See what I mean about the water being so clear?  There are also Gar in the lake.  They like to hide in all the plants.

The kids were completely fascinated.

Here is one of the big fish swimming under us.

This picture is of some birds that were panting to cool off.

They had an aquarium we got to walk through also.

They had turtles...

Photo op!

Then we went to the Wetland Boardwalk.  This was a great experience for the kids to learn about being quiet.

Riley is so smart.  She said,"Mom, if you are really quiet you see a lot in Nature and its beautiful."

I agree.