Ink Lake State Park

This weekend we had the opportunity to do some exploring in Texas. We settled on Ink lake, a beautiful hill country lake about 2 hours from San Antonio. We went with our friends the Checketts. They have two boys about Kenzi and Kades age so we spend alot of time with them. We left San Antonio about 9:30 a.m. and arrived at Ink lake around 11.30. We then proceeded to have a picnic on the lake. After our picnic we decided to take a hike. The hike ended up being about 3 miles and was a little hard on the younger ones but Kenzi did an awesome job of keeping up. We saw lots of wildlife including deer and turtles... thankfully no snakes! The area we hiked in has lots of granite so a lot of the trail was hiking over granite faces exactly where those Poisonous Texas Coral snakes like to cool themselves under. The hike itself was very beautiful because the ground glittered with fools good and quartz, and the soil was covered in beautiful wildflowers. After our hike we wanted to cool off so we rented canoes and took the kids out on the lake. The water was just the right temperature and felt very refreshing. Kade tried to jump in a number of times. We found an amazing secluded granite cove on our canoe trip where you could cliff dive, lay out on the rocks and sun yourself, or swim to your hearts content. We didnt have a chance to do any of those because we needed to return the canoe, but we are planning a future trip back to Ink Lake which will include a camping, a caving expeditioin, fishing, and a strawberry picking adventure. There is so much to see and do in Texas and we are really enjoying ourselves here. Ive included a couple of pictures in this post, but for more pictures of our excursion please visit the pictures and videos section of our site. Love you all!