Day 2 – Marble Springs and Ink State Park
We headed to Marble Falls around 9 AM to get some breakfast, explore the cool Historic area of this small town and then hike the waterfalls. We had a great breakfast at the Blue Bonnet Cafe on the side of a 5 lane highway (wait isn’t this supposed to be a small town?) After breakfast we went to check out the historic district. We asked someone about it and they said that actually most of the old historic buildings had been torn down but there was still one, which she pointed out. We walked over to it and realized it was a State Farm office. While exploring several fun shops that were NOT in historic old buildings, we mentioned to one shop owner that we were going to go hike around the waterfalls next. She was kinda quiet. We asked her if she knew the best place to go. She let the cat out of the bag: did someone forget to mention that there are actually NO WATERFALLS in Marble Falls. And as it turns out, there is actually no marble here either. Just quartz that the early settlers THOUGHT was marble. You heard right. No marble and no falls. So looks like they just made up the town’s name. In all fairness, I guess there used to be some falls, but they are now covered by a lake.
We were not to be deterred. We found another place called Ink State Park where we could hike and see lots of Blue Bonnets and some waterfalls. It was on the way back to Lake Buchanan. We enjoyed our afternoon there and saw lots of Blue Bonnets. But no falls. And walked over 15,000 steps.
We ate dinner at a lakeside restaurant called Boat Town Bar & Grill. I had a great burger and FRIES. Bruce had sliders.
