Labor Day at Anderson Ranch

We had a fun day trip to Anderson Ranch which is about 1.5 hours from Boise.

The reservoir was very low. You can see all the dirt is usually part of the lake. It has been a very dry year here, plus they are using a lot of water to fight all the forest fires in our state.

We found a nice place for a picnic near a beautiful stream.

I made Marty take my picture to prove I was actually there.

Pretty caterpillar!

In the stream, there were little interesting looking fish. Here they are trying to catch one.

Look close in the middle, I caught a picture of the tiny fish. They thought it looked like a rock fish, who knows what it actually was.

They did end up catching one eventually.







Here is Wesley's leaf collection. He loves to find art in nature. He always wants to take it home though. The leaves didn't make it, except in picture form.

There were hot springs in the creek in a few places. I didn't actually get a picture of them, but this is just downstream from them. The water coming in was very hot. So, there were dams built by people to keep the hot water but mix it with the cold water and it was pretty nice. I think it would have been even nicer on a day that was not 100+ degrees!!


This is just down from the hot springs where Marty and Tyler found something fun to do.