Rainbow springs

We decided to take my sister and her hubby to Rainbow Springs for tubing. The thought was it would be more relaxing than canoeing and actually it was. We did a short two hour float down the slow moving Rainbow River. It was just the right length for us. And then we went in the state park head spring area for a look around and to have a picnic lunch.

Here we are at the beginning floating away from each other.

Your not allowed to bring disposable items on the river so we got a variety of water bottles some steel water bottles, some plastic and tied string to them and then tied them to our floats and they all seemed to work out great. K found a children's plastic cantine with a strap that worked great for her. We also brought a plastic zip lock bag for other things we didn't want wet. But they would hold things like car keys etc at the beginning for $2.00.

Below us it looked like a lush grass field.

We saw lot's of wild life but unfortunately this is the only bird picture we got.

 As we went down we saw lot's of wild life turtles, birds of all kinds, diving for fish, and of course fish. Unfortunately we were having such a great time we didn't get any of the pictures of them.

Floating away

The river wines in and out of a nice neighbor hood on one side and the State Park on the other side. Some of the houses were very nice. We didn't feel right about taking pictures of peoples back yards so if you want to see the houses you'll have to take a float your self.

Waiting for us at the shallow area.

 We soon found  ourselves getting separated from each other. As we each floated off in our own little world of rainbow riverness. Eventually we decided to use the water bottles and the string tied to them, to help keep us all connected and then started floating as one big raft.

Some of us went down backward.



Some were sideways. Check out how K decided to ride on her float. Upside down.

This was worth the trip. I think I could have gone longer if we had taken food with us. The water was nice and cool despite the heat we were all comfortable.  It was very relaxing. Later we took pictures at the head springs. I'll put those on another post.