Hiking at Goverment Canyon State Natural Area

We went hiking today. We love our Texas State Parks Pass. This is the third time to use it since we bought it for Spring Break. Goverment Canyon is just about 10 minutes from the house. It is an amazing lump of acreage full of hiking and biking trails. Since we had everyone with us, we hiked the "baby" trail, Savannah which consisted of 99% flat trail of 2.3 miles.

Next time we are doing the Lytle trail when we get up early enough to start at 9am. We started at 12:30 pm and were finished by 2:00 pm. We moved kind of fast because it was flat and momma needed the exercise. My foot held up, but it is hurting now. The kids were funny because they would yell, "poop on the left!" or "Momma - rocks on the right!" They did not want a repeat of Spring Break.

Getting ready to head out into "THE WILD" (think of the movie Madagascar)

The park rangers want to know how many you are, when you left, what you are driving and which trail...I guess in the event you don't come back and they find your car after closing they can send out a rescue posse. We filled out for form and left in the box to the left.

This is what a good portion of the trail looked like...nice and green.

Diego and Jaz next to a cactus

a white bluebonnet, never seen one before. It captured our interest for at least 10 minutes.

The only animal foot prints we saw. We thought is was probably a wild hog.

a tiny cactus in the middle of the trail. Someone put rocks around it so it wouldn't get stepped on. We payed it forward and did it for another one down the way. We didn't get a picture...we get so busy having fun.