Springs to feed the fish. Because of all the winter snow and recent rains, the area is beautiful. The sky was perfectly blue with just a few tufts of clouds here and there. (Quite a contrast to what we have had lately.) The foliage and flowers are in near perfect form. The greens are more vibrant this year than I ever remember. Another week and the flowers will all be out. Warm Springs has enormous rainbow trout just waiting below the surface to snatch a piece of floating bread. One of our favorite activities is to buy a handful of fish food (25 cents) and throw it out all at once. The fish go CRAZY.
After the feeding frenzy, we headed off to Mesa Falls. There is more runoff this year and so the waterfalls are spectacular. The water here originates at Big Springs where 250,000,000 gallons of fresh water comes out of the rocks each day. This is joined by other small streams and tributaries to become the Henry's Fork of the Snake River which flows through our town. Once again the greens were magnificent and the flowers just beginning to bloom. Watch out for the mosquitoes - even in the monster winds they were busy. Take along the repellant. No matter what time of year, The Falls (upper and lower) are breathtaking.
Later in the afternoon I went kayaking for the first time this year. The water was fast, uneventful, and COLD! With the wind blowing, we had to paddle hard to go forward. If you stopped paddling it blew you backwards. We did the Chester Dam run. It begins right below the dam and we get out at the Fun Farm Bridge in the Twin Groves area. Without the wind it would have been perfect.
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