Found another Texas State Park, this time Balmorhea. It was originally a CCC project and it's most famous feature is a huge swimming pool, with two wings.
As you approach the pool, it almost looks like Roman baths, it's so big. There is a wing on either side of the central pool, and a walkway all around it. It's spring fed, at a rate of a milion gallons an hour or more. That's right--24,000,000 gallons of water a day go through it! It's a steady temperature of 76 to 77F, and on a 98F day, that felt good. And contains fish, lots and lots of little fish.
The lighter colored water is the left wing, where the pool bottom is concrete and the pool is 5 feet deep. The darker water has a natural bottom, and is 25 feet deep. That's why there's a difference in water color. On the right wing, the bottom is also natural, and the water is about 20 feet deep, and has a diving board. Scuba diving is also allowed here, but no fishing.
It's not often you see a pool with the depth labeled for 20 feet!
Come on up to the coast of Washington! It's 61F, cloudy and beautiful. None of that 100F stuff up here. Just updated our blog with our WA trip. You HAVE to go to Olympia National Park and see Hurricane Ridge.
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