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That's the Black Pearl at 5:18. It was once a construction barge that Travis Pastrana owned. You'll see it out and about often, sometimes anchored by the cliffs.

👍For the algorithms 😸

Isn’t technology amazing 📸 📱❔ 🌌 ✨ Have you ever seen any images of the Milky Way from Australia? It’s very different from what you see.

Now imagine when this was mostly covered with water.

Pan American speedway was owned by the late great Ricky Ware. He was a radio personality. It was also a very fun place to go.

So sad the city used strong arm tactics to shut that place down. At least that’s what I heard.was so much fun going out there

Gorgeous West Texas country. Great choice of music 👍

I enjoy seeing the country, birds-eye view!

Nice drone work. That area looks like a hot dry place in the summer.

Nice vistas. Good job on the color range too.

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Thanks Dan, that was nice and relaxing 😎 I never know if I’m gonna get a history video or just outright spectacular scenery. Your drone skills are so good now. Sorry to see your left knee is hurting. 🩹

and one for the algorithm 😸

Every bar needs a gimmick to draw the crowds 🤠 🍺 In Europe during the Middle Ages they miraculously found items to draw the crowds to the churchs. I think you are having way too much fun with the drone, but the history lesson balances it.

ive always loved the hill country

the lake is fine the way it is people..all we need is lots of rain possibly a year worth of rain..i spent mybvb youth years there having fun..

A great way to fix the water level issue would be to fix the canals that draw water from it. They're all soil ditches and lose 90% of the water before it even hits farmer land... Need state money for that tho since farmers don't give a rat's ass as they have water rights

Both of my grandfathers worked on this damm, one from Sabinal, the other from Rio Medina, one Mexican, one German. My dad later worked for a Mr. Zeller who I understand was Pres. of a San Antonio fishing club that was instrumental of the construction of this damm. The damm's English owners sold water to farmers along a canal, part of that is still near Castroville. Among many, I have had some good times in boats and swimming in the wonderful water it once held.

Excellent content, good music - keep this up and this channel will grow! Howdy from the north side of SA.

If people are Still Living there then it's Not a ghost town. We're pronounced Texan (Taken from the name of the First encountered native coastal tribe known as Tajas meaning Friend.) not tex"I"an this is a sore spot for All native Texans, I am a direct lineal descendant of EE Stuart part of the original group brought to Texas by Stephen F Austin, my grandfather's grandfather's EE Stewart who also was one of the original Texas Masons and original Texas Rangers he also fought at the battle of San Jacinto so Please for those of Us True Native Texans Put forth an effort to pronounce it correctly and Thank You!! 🤠👍

The back ground music is to loud for me to try to listen to!!

Great video been coming to this lake since i was a kid

My aunt and uncle lived in Mico. We used to drive over the damn to see the spillway overflow.

Great video....thanks.

As of today medina lake is a little creek. Very low.

Nicely done

I used to go to Medina lake right where you are flying and rent a 14 ft. Lone Star boat. I'd bring my own outboard motor and go fishing by the dam. It's really low! I'm surprised at how low the water level is.

Great flying. Well done on the video.

My grandfather Ebben Holt supplied mules for construction of the dam. One task he was given was to relocate the Morman Colony cemetery. He did and those headstones are in the Pipe Creek cemetery about 6 miles east of the colony site on Fm 1283. But not known is that he only moved the headstones and did not dig up the graves themselves. "Those graves were consecrated and I was not about to touch them," he said. Not being a member of the LDS Church I've often wondered how he knew that. Perhaps he knew some of the descendants who remained in the area. There were also another 500 black workers there. There's a black cemetery in Bandera that my cousin Carl Holt Jr was was working to have restored in the late 1990's. Sadly he's no longer with us but restoration continued. Status unknown to me at this point. In your video which was excellent by the way but there was no footage of the spillway on the opposite side. The flood in 2002 was about two feet from going over the top. Despite scare tactics from a neighboring county there was no danger to the dam. They now (SAWS) have the water rights but have never been able to pump a drop of water. They did repair the floodgates however. Also this Dam was the 3rd largest concrete constructed dam in North America when it was completed. Privately financed and built. The same year of the flood, 2002 also saw the Guadelupe River flood and Canyon Lake dam had a huge gorge carved out below its spillway. Thankfully rains stopped and when reviewing pictured and film it's painfully obvious to many that it was getting very close. That dam is not concrete but what they call an earthen dam (dirt). An Uncle of mine, an engineer was hired to work on it. He hated it. "Doomed to fail, not if but when." Love to see you film that dam and the new gorge which exposed dinosaur tracks. Peace...

Spent a lot of time hiking, camping and fishing Medina lake in my youth. Wonderful memories. This is some great camera work.

What? What did you say?I can’t understand you!somebody is playing their music really loud!!!!

You are good at editing and providing a good backstory to this area. Enjoyed your this one too. Been flying for years, but I'm just getting started posting my drone videos and have several things to learn. I have yet to narrate during my videos like you do. You are good at it. Keep it going :-)

I remember when you could drive across it

Be careful with that drone, it's illegal to fly a drone over a government facility like water, wastewater, and electric production facilities. End up with some new bracelets.

What kind of drone is that?

I've spent lots of time there. It is a true gem when there is water in it but never a good fishing lake "comparatively". I haven't seen it that low in a very long time. Hopefully we get some better rains this year. There is some very cool spots past the spillway. Its supposed to be a restricted area but many folks wander back there and enjoy it.

Not Medina County, it's in Bandera County. Barely any of the lake is in Medina

The music is too loud...

Great view thanks

Moderator approved my sharing your video on Houston Drones FB page. Great work! Thx!

I tried fishing the lake a few years ago, but the water was so low I couldn't get my kayak to the water. I think the water was like a 15 foot drop from the ramp.

You should make a video of Lake Amistad in Del Rio Tx

Joe Horn owned it too. I spent many yrs drag racing next door at Alamo Dragway

It was almost a 1/2 mile high banked track. Very fast.

Nice video. I live between coves millican and seekatz. Very exciting and fun! Thank you.

Nice job!

They were really concerned about that damn in 1978 flood, it took damage almost broke. I know every crook cranny in that Lake, in the early eighties I used to fish at Lake every weekend, for 2 years I run jet boats on that Lake, until I got tired of it being so low all the time, so I went and bought me a piece of land on LBJ problem solved constant level Lake. Used to dock at Hades Cove, Mr haby was a fine fellow, I understand his family gave up the most land for that Lake,

That was a great video. Loved the ambient music during the whole thing. Audio levels were great. Thank you.

You would think that after 9/11 there would be no-fly zones over dams…