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I'll be heading to Denver from August 8-13. In the meantime, I thought I'd write about adventures I'm having here in Austin.
Last Sunday, a group of us from the Austin Natural Movement Meetup Group headed out to Hamilton Pool for some swimming and natural movement fun.
Natural movement is playing in nature the way humans move in hunter-gatherer communities and the way children naturally play. It's been termed "Parkour in nature" and is best known as MovNat. Here's an awesome inspirational video showing what MovNat looks like.
Hamilton Pool is a natural lagoon which is beautiful but also totally packed on the weekends. In fact, the parking lot only allows 75 cars maximum. Fortunately we met there at 10:00 a.m. and were able to get spots.
We checked out the pool (lagoon) and enjoyed some swimming and rock scrambling. Then luckily, Chris, the guy in the orange shirt, said he wanted to explore the river that fed into the pool. This led us to an isolated area of the river that was perfect for shallow water swimming. We followed our water adventures with some primal-style rock throwing.
I'm hoping the group holds more water-related events like this to provide respite from these 105-plus degree temperatures we've been having. I've scheduled an event for next Saturday at a natural swimming area called Blue Hole in Georgetown. I've never been there but will report back.