National park
Jacob's Well Natural Area
Limestone spring feeding a flooded cave system, saved from development by one obsessed neighbor.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Jacob's Well Natural Area near Wimberley, Texas turns on a man named David Baker, who bought a house on the bluff above the spring in the nineteen eighties just to live beside it. You'll hear how a resident with no hydrology degree became obsessed with a fading flow, and what his Wimberley Valley Watershed Association tore down to save it. The guide also touches the well's darker reputation among cave divers who never returned. Stand at the ledge itself while you listen, and watch the water move.
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