Our First Kayak Adventure on Bessie's Creek March 10, 2018

Bessie's Creek, sometimes also known as Bessie's Bayou is actually, a rather large waterway that goes from I-10 West just past Brookshire, Texas, almost to FM 1093 between Fulshear and Simonton.  The entire navigable waterway is probably 10 miles.  We entered the water at Hunt Rd. and traveled upstream about 2.5 miles, then turned around and traveled downstream against a headwind. 

Once we unloaded the boats, we prepared for our put in:

 On this trip, most of the pictures are of CC - the next trip she took more photos!  Bessie's seems very wide for a creek.  One thing you will notice, is that she's usually in front.

A good amount of the area around Bessie's is farm land.  There are a lot of cattle, and CC likes to talk to them.  Some of the reactions are interesting.  On this trip, we had some yearlings who seemed challenged by what she had to "say".  They responded in kind.

This dead tree in the water had an interesting look to it.  Over the last few years, we have had the ending of a long-term drought with a couple of major floods, and then Hurricane Harvey.  A lot of trees have died, or been washed away. 

We traveled along the creek, until we came to a broken bridge, partially in the water.  I wondered if this was the end of our trip.  But no, we were able to get under it, though I did not record that feat.

In other areas along the creek there are homes.  Most of them are large with lots of windows.

On this trip, I finally was able to see the water side of an interesting house right on FM 1483.  That is the picture below. 

The road above it curves at that point before going over the creek.  It is difficult to see in this picture, but the siding to either side of the picture window is rounded stone.  It's a beautiful house.  However, we wondered how it fared Harvey.

Just beyond the house, we went under the bridge to turn around.  There were a lot of empty and broken swallow nests under the bridge, along with a lot of snakes nestled in the cracks.  These look like some sort of rat snakes.  CC wasn't excited, but they don't bother me.  I found it very interesting, though I suppose the swallows didn't like them much.  There were perhaps a dozen up in the cracks above the bridge supports.

 On the way back, CC wanted to show off her "stickers" - admittedly, I haven't put any on my boat yet.  This is a shout-out to our online friends, the Wondering Electrician...

And Monkey-N-Around.  "Get Your Paddles Wet"!