Keep Austin Beautiful

this past saturday i took dylan out to the lake travis clean up organized by the keep austin beautiful organization. it was really quite fun. we got out to the meeting place by 8:30a and picked up our stuff and then headed out to the park we volunteered to help clean up.

mostly we picked up bottles, cigarette butts, and food wrappers. but when we were walking across the bridge at the low water crossing park, we found a 20" bmx freestyle bike at the bottom of the lake (really a the lower colorado river but who's paying attention). there were some people who had their canoe and kayak with them that we got to help us try and get the bike out. however, by the time they got their loads of trash out of their boats and back over to the site where the bike was submerged the flood gates had been opened and the current had picked up too much to even find the bike again, let alone get it out of the water.

after we were done with the trash pick up we went back to the satellite building where we picked up our supplies and had a bit of lunch before heading back to the low water crossing to break in our new fishing rods. we lost two lures and didn't get a single bite. doesn't really matter though. it was just fun being outside with dylan. he mainly let his lures "swim" in the water at the shoreline. i figured out how to cast my setup properly. so all in all it was a very fun and productive day.