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Service now requires a permit for canoeists or other Rio Grande floaters. You can no longer just put your craft in anywhere and start paddling. Guides are also now available. Things are enjoyably different floating and paddling, these days. Parks and Wildlife gets the credit for leasing 22 access points along popular canoeing and kayaking streams. Some require fees, but they’re reasonable. Readers can find a map and short description on the TPWD website. Click on https://tpwd.
texas.gov and put “River Access” in the “Search block”. Designation of the Texas Paddling Trails has also simplified and expedited planning and floating without breaking the law or encountering the authorities. John Boros is TPWD’s River Access honcho and told me there are now 141 access sites combined among the inland and coastal trails! “We also partner with communities for inland and coastal access points via the Texas Paddling Trails Program (TPT)” Boros said. “These ac-
Lifestyle cess points are usually located at county or city parks or at feasible road crossings.” The Paddling Trails have been around a while and take a lot of mystery out of planning a trip. It’s not like Burt Reynolds and his three friends sitting around a topographic map wondering what that South Caroline/ Geogia river looked like from the water they were planning to float in the movie “Deliverance.” And the hillbillies from their adventure are nothing to worry about, either.
Thursday March 31 , 2022
Where’s My Phone!
Richard has a mobile phone and a regular landline home phone. He told me to always call his mobile phone. So I wondered why he still paid to have his home phone. Richard said, “It only costs a few dollars a month and I need it to call my mobile phone when I can’t find it!” “Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Keep a prayer handy, and you will always find God. Kayaks or canoes are the best crafts to negotiate a Hill Country river, like the San Saba, pictured here. And seeing Texas from the water shows scenes you can’t see any other way. Nobody else besides our small group was on the river all day long. Photo by John Jefferson.
Danny R. Biddy, Chaplain: Chambers County Sheriff’s Office & Fellowship of Christian Cowboys
