It was too early (not enough insects yet) for Balmorhea's normal bat population, usually in the thousands. Still, watching just a few hundred take to the skies at dusk was breath taking. This is one of the two daytime bat hangouts.
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At the refreshing San Solomon Springs pools, tetra, ducks and Boy Scouts all get along! These springs have provided water for travelers and agriculture for thousands of years. Twenty-something million gallons of water a day is pumped through these pools.
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Balmorhea not only has a full service campground, its quaint motor court is usually fully occupied. All the buildings, canals and pools were built in the 1930's by the CCC.
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This is one of those "find-the-..." pictures! There really is a Pied-billed Grebe in there. Honest! The park has painstakingly recreated the San Solomon Cienega, a desert wetland that is now habitat for several endangered fish and other aquatic life.
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