Hello,
My Wife and I visited Cleburne State Park today hoping to catch the water going over the spillways in action since we got around 5" of rain in the last 24 hours. Well, we weren't disappointed, the overflow was maxed out so much that the small stone used to cross over to the overlook were about 1 foot underwater, so we scouted around and came across the top of the dam. It turned out to be pretty neat, because all the next series of wildflowers are just about to bloom. At the end of the dam by the spillway,
apparently in the late 1930's the CCA built the series of 3 spillways to help control the overflow of water, so there are step like walls on both sides for about 250yards. I have set my pictures up on our gallery, if you have time I would appreciate your comments or ideas on how to do them better. Also, if you can identify the snake in the picture, I would sure appreciate it, I think that it was just a Brown Water snake, but I didn't take any chances and never took my eyes off him.
http://www.pbase.com/ckirk/cleburne_state_park
Take care,
Craig