My Spring Walk Down the Arkansas River, East Bank

A few weeks ago I shared a few pictures on Facebook of a walk I took in downtown Wichita, along the Arkansas River.  I live less than a block from the river, but I don't get down there very often.  Most of the time it's too hot in the summer, or I'm just too busy getting other things done.  The last few years, because of the drought we have had, there hasn't been much water in the river as it goes through downtown, so it was nice to see water in the river once again.

I'm going to share most of the pictures I took, but not all of them.  I took way too many that day, and I'm not sure any of you would have the patience to scroll through such a large post.  Today I'm going to show the pictures I took as I walked south along the east bank.  Sometime next week I will share most of the pictures I took as I walked back home, along the west bank.

Started the walk at the Keeper of the Plains.

Seagulls 

Next three pictures are of Exploration Place, which is a kids science museum. 

Memorial to the U.S.S. Wichita, Word War II Heavy Cruiser.

Up those stairs sits the War Memorial Park.  I'll be taking pictures of that at some later point in time.

Not sure what this is from, but it just sits there on the bank.

Next four pictures are of one of the many vehicular bridges crossing the river.

Next six pictures are from a sitting area along the river, including a raised space further back.

Loved the color contrast between the tree and the near by shrubbery. 

The root system of the tree. 

The plaque giving the name of this sculpture and artist was missing.

River bank in front of the Hyatt.

Duck

Snake sitting on a reed in the river.

Next two pictures are of the waterfall feature in front of the Hyatt.

View from the bridge south of the Hyatt where I turned around to walk back.