Spring on a Rock

Posted by Jamie Ann (Lakewood, United States) on 27 October 2006 in Miscellaneous and Portfolio.

The things you find while kayaking a river can be quite varied and are most often disgusting. But, occasionally you find something unusual that captures your imagination, lingering your paddle, which is what happened in this case. Sunning itself on a large low flat rock in the Colorado River, below a field of reeds, is a massive, old rusting spring. I-70 runs along the north bank of the river through Glenwood Canyon. Along the south bank of the river are railroad tracks. I can only speculate that this rusty old spring popped out of the truck of a passing rail car and landed on this rock in the river.