Randy & Dolly's Property near Kerrville

	A while back, our good friends the Taylor's invited me to come by to see their property in the Hill Country.  Little did I know that Stonehenge was on the way...
	After leaving Stonehenge, one passes Easter Island.  Boy, I'm lost.
	Now we are at our property.  We 'carved' out a spot for the camper on the edge of our property.
	We have a nice place to camp while working on the place.
	Home away from home.
	We have already spent many hours by the fire in the evening.
	On the back of the property it falls off to a creek.
	The view from our 'sitting rock'.
	Here is a dam that holds back a reservoir fed by artesian springs.
	However, the ground is so porous that the water freely goes underground then back up when ever it feels like it.
	How about that reflection of where the normal water level should be.
	One of the bluffs over the river.
	Another
	Many neat places to go exploring.
	This is a natural swimming pool formed by blocking one of the many little streams heading for the river.
	Cool...
	There are many locals running about at any given time.
	If you take the time to look down you may even see the action on the ground.  In this case, we have a couple of Dung Beatles fighting over a freshly rolled horse deposit.
	Now we are getting to one of the main attractions of the property.  This is the private entrance for the owners to the river.  There are shelters with BBQ pits and seating over a magnificent view.
	Just down stream a ways is the MO Ranch and kids come up stream to the shallows shown below.
	We are swimming & wading upstream toward the shallows
	Here the river has carved out of the rock a veritable play land.
	Looking back to where we just came from.
	Looking upstream.  Note Bob & Karen enjoying the refreshing water.
	Ok, I can't stand it.  I have to try out one of the gullies carved into the rock.
	This is refreshing and I don't want to leave.
	More views of the river - oops, how did she get in the picture...???
	Karen trying out the chute.  Later we found out that there is a tunnel under the big rock that you can pass through!!!
	Great fun
	This is a fantastic place that convinced me to explore buying into.  SO WE DID!!!
	A fly fisherman on the river.
	This is a wooden dam just down the road.
	We parked at this low water crossing to walk up the river a bit.
	Look what we found!!!
	There are so many beautiful dams all around this area.
	This is The DAM just across The DAM Store in Ingram.
	We are very excited about getting the change to buy property in this area.  We will be scheduling many camping trips there to begin clearing paths, a driveway, and a site for a future house.  Keep watching for more....
Update 1/2007
	This is at the end of a 'work day' at the new place.  The campers are now completely set up for stays without having to bring anything but food & drink.  Note the sign in the close-up below.
	"The Riparian Retreat" was duly christened.  As you can see from the condition of the ladies, it was a drizzly weekend and they didn't back away from the work a bit.  We got a tremendous area cleared and cleaned up this weekend.

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