Float Trip on the Rio Grande

Thursday we rescheduled the float trip on the Rio Grande that we had to cancel for Monday so Wayne could see the doctor again.  His blood pressure and oxygen levels were up but she still wanted him to go home.

We had to be in South Fork at 8:00 for the float trip.  We saw these two deer at the Great Divide at the top of Wolf Creek Pass.  I thought they were going to come up on the road to see us.

 

After filling out the paper work we went with Aaron, out guide, to launch his boat.  Here are Wayne and Aaron right after we launched.  Aaron is an eighth grade math teacher during the school year and a fishing guide during the summer.  He was very nice.

I was planning on just going along for the ride and to take pictures like this one looking up at the road.

This was the first catch of the day.  A little brown trout.  It was a catch and release trip so back it went into the river.

Aaron pointed out this doe feeding near the edge of the river.

 

I caught a small brown trout but we didn’t get a picture.  Then Wayne caught a few more browns.

These were a little bigger.

The river went from being smooth to full of rapids like this.  Aaron nimbly maneuvered around all the rocks with a pair of oars.

In all we caught a total of 9 fish and only lost a few flies.  On the way home I hear this loud thump and asked Wayne, “WHAT WAS THAT?”  That was a deer who cam out from nowhere and hit the front fender on the car.  We drove on for a little while but stopped where we had a shoulder to look at the damage.

We were leaking anti freeze so we called the tow service and our insurance agent and got towed in to Buckhorn Towing across the street from Wolf Creek Park. 

To pass the time I took a picture of one of the flowers on the roadside.

The tow driver dropped us off at the motorhome and as soon as we got in one of the owners, Diana, was at the door making sure we were okay.  We were so we went with her up to the clubhouse for the Thursday night dinner they provide.

We are certainly going to miss this place.  The owners took us out to Brunch Sunday morning before we finished packing and before we left Monday morning.  We drove the motorhome over to Buckhorn Towing and hooked the car up there so that we could tow it back to Aransas Pass.