Ginnie Springs

I was invited to go to Ginnie Springs on Saturday with some friends. We bought some rafts to float on the river since we found some for almost the same price as the rentals. The hour long drive or so was great. As soon as we pay for the day pass and park the cars, the sky opened up. The rain wasn't the big problem seeing as we were going to be in the water but it was lightning as well. We made our way to the river with the rafts and tubes but I didn't want to go in the water with it lightning although everyone else went.

I was a little disappointed and so was Holly but what were we to do. We were waiting the lightning out but it didn't stop and she was getting cold so we went back to the car to warm up. The rest of the group arrived and we went to a shelter gazebo type thing where they had a small grill to make burgers. There was a spring/cave entrance a few feet away. At this point the lightning had stopped so we decided to go in. One of the cave entrances was there and it was quite scary. I was in chest deep water and a 3 feet away was a 30 foot drop into a labyrinth of underwater caves.

The water was so cold I could barely hold myself afloat so I went to get the rafts. We all floated down the river for a while and someone decided not to go too much further and got out of the river at a campsite. It was a little tough getting out there but cool. The long, barefoot walk back to our site hurt my baby skinned feet but I made it.

Despite the bad start with the weather, we had a great time. Of course I got most of it on video. Check it out below.

Ginnie Springs (GoPro)