Hiking the Canyon

Judy and John are both Certified Naturalists and work closely with the San Antonio Parks and Recreation Department on development of new lands. There was a new area that they were doing an endangered plant search for today that we went on.

Getting instructions

We were looking for 3 specific plants along a small canyon on the property.

Texas Pinks (not what we were looking for, but beautiful).

Measuring a mystery plant.

This was a LOJ (live oak and juniper) forest. An occasional pool of water and a little running water, but pretty dry.

There were some beautiful dragonflies along the streambed.

We saw lots of nandina, which is an unwelcome invasive plant so they would check the location on their GSP so they could come in and treat them later. The plant counts will help determine if this will remain nature preserve where there is no public access or if they will put in public trails.

This is wild Texas hill country and downed trees stay down etc so the going was a little challenging at times, but very interesting! The only drawback for the day was the bug that found Judy and Jean that leave a bite that ITCHES FOR DAYS!!

Treated ourselves to Mexican food for dinner. Another great day!