Saturday, January 1, 2022

Mount Bonnell (Austin, TX) – October 2020

 Hardly a new place for me, as I’d been here a number of times within the past decade or so.  But since I hadn’t been up here in a few years, I was due for a return visit.  And this was the first time for my current car to handle going up the steep grade I needed to drive up to get here (which was no problem, thanks to my car’s German engineering).  There were few people present in the middle of the day, so I was able to park right at the bottom of the steps.

 Upon reaching the top one of the first things I noticed was the broken monument had been restored.  When I first arrived (a long time ago) I got to read this item of historical significance.  On a later trip, someone had knocked off the upper left portion, and on a trip after that the monument was encased in a wire cage to prevent further damage.  It was nice to see that fixed.

 The view from the top hadn’t change much from any other visit.  First I looked to the south (downstream) and then to the north (upstream).  I did go to various points of the plateau to try different shots, but the view doesn’t change that much, so the pictures you see here are the best of the vista.










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