Waller Creek

It's interesting that Waller Creek flows parallel to Shoal Creek both emptying into Lady Bird Lake. Waller Creek is the one east of the capital that flows through the University of Texas campus and Waterloo Park. At places they are less than two miles apart. Driving from the studied site of Shoal Creek in Pease Park to the studied site of Waller Creek in Waterloo Park is only 1.8 miles. I bring up this geographical closeness because the biology is very different.

At this point we had explored a few other creeks around town and found them either to have been dried up (Blunn Creek) or too deep to explore by wading (Barton Creek near Barton Springs).