Swimming in the Spring

Come on in ... the water is COLD

Shelby collected several "heart" shapped leaves (wonder if it was a redbud tree)

Matthew checking it out

Shelby found a duck!

On Friday we went to Deep Eddy pool with one of my friends in Austin. Deep Eddy is the oldest swimming pool in Texas and is a natural spring pool so no yucky cholorine to dry out your skin. It also is a cool 72 degrees year round. That made it nice with our HOT days. The unique thing about this pool is that it has a HUGE shallow area and no algea that you normally get from spring pools.

There is an area blocked off that is about a foot deep and down. Then it gradually goes up to 3 ft 5 inches on one side and 3 ft on the other. The shallow area and deep area (8 ft deep) are seperated by a wall so there was no worry that the kids would accidently go too deep.

We had a blast playing and even met a few other homeschooling families. Next time I will need to bring Abigail since I know there is enough area for her to play.