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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.
Glad to see there is still some water to be found in the Pedernales River. Many places it is dry. Blue hole in GT is a beautiful place, but I haven't been there this year. I hope it still has water. Just got back from Colorado and it was a great break from the ATX heat. Going to Denver in a couple of weeks but it looks like you will already be back from there when I go. Later!
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Ah yes, it was great playing in the water. Shallow in most places, but there were a few spots where we could swim. I'll be sure to post my assessment of both Blue Hole and Denver! Glad you're escaping the heat for a while too, LOL.
ReplyDeleteDamn how come me and Laurent never got to see you in a bikini??! Shoulda stuck around for more natural movement meetups...
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