The fascination of the young at heart and the Rio Grande River go hand in hand.

Here’s a very short video of the High Bridge Rapid in the Taos Box section of the Rio Grande River which lies 650 feet below the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. Watch closely and you can see as we pass through it’s shadow. Just click on the link and please leave a comment.

High Bridge Rapid

We see this guy about everyday at our lunch spot just below Ouzel Rapid on the Taos Box section of the Rio Grande River. On this particular occasion it scurried out from the rocks and nabbed a tasty caterpillar from under the lunch table within inches of my feet. I think he/she’s pretty cute.

A watchful eye.

Lunching with us, but there was no wooly caterpillar on our menu.

A full Belly

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“Nothing in this world is as soft and yielding as water, Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it“, Tao Ching.

Hot Fudge Boulder.

There’s just not much more to say. The Rio Grande River has worked it’s magic on many of the boulders along it’s course through the Taos Box. The actual process is called “fluting” by geologist. Here are but a few I’ve photographed along the way.

Parfait Boulder

The Pile Boulders.

Half Dome Boulder

Dimple Boulder

Iceberg Boulder

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One of the favorite seasons around here for locals and visitors alike is most definitely Autumn. The molding of the Summer season into Winter brings dramatic changes through out the state and this is especially true at the Bosque del Apache. Eighteen miles south of Socorro lies 52,000 acres of wet lands, a Rio Grande River creation (with a little help from man) which attracts a myriad of birds, waterfoul, raptors and all variations of migrating feathered friends. The following series of photos were taken early November 2009, one evening and the next morning.

Fall color, looking west toward the San Mateo Mountains.

The golden leaves of Autumn and a Redwing Blackbird.

One of the hundreds of Mallards feeding at the Flight Deck.

Great Blue Heron.

After feeding during the day the Sandhill Cranes fly in to spend the evening with some of their buddies.

Sandhill Cranes.

? thousand Snow Geese take flight, sunrise.

Snow Geese at sunrise.

Sandhill Crane, Pintail ducks and Snow Geese.

A mule deer feeds with his feathered friends.

Snow Geese taking flight.

"Hey Watch It!", "Move Over", "Gemme Some Room".

Snow Geese pair.

For more sights of Bosque del Apache go to “www.flickr.com/photos/jorunny/”.

Oh my gosh! What can I say? If your reading this then you have some connection to New Wave Rafting Co., be it simply curiosity in what we do, maybe you’ve taken a whitewater river trip with us or maybe your in some of my river photos, or maybe you ………….well you get the point. What I’m trying to say is THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! Your participation in New Mexico’s greatest whitewater experience, the Rio Grande, and choosing New Wave Rafting as your outfitter allows me to work on one of the most beautiful rivers in the southwest and eke-out a living at absolutely the greatest job in the world.

Here are a few shots on the final day of the 2009 season.

Ready for their river trip.

Pink Quartzite Rock.

The entrance to Herring Bone Rapid.

Cool water and warm sun.

Floating, knowing I have the greatest job in the world!

View from The Slot and Baby Huey Boulder.

Our resident Great Blue Heron.

Check out more photographs of the Rio Grande Race Course and Taos Box on my Flickr account “www.flickr.com/photos/jorunny/”. Hope to see you next season.