Salado Creek Greenway, Oakwell to Robert Tobin Park Trailhead, Part 2

As I explained in yesterday's post, the photos I am posting today are from my return walk from the Oakwell Trailhead back to the Tobin Trailhead primarily along the dirt trails close to the Salado Creek bed:

Even without having seen a topographic map, it is evident from walking the trail that there is enough of a slope in the Salado Creek bed from the Loop 410 bridge to about three-quarters of a mile downstream to keep any water in that section of the creek flowing when water is present. The creek levels off from there at least to the Eisenhauer St bridge. The creek bed is level enough for pools of water to remain after it stops flowing.

And there currently are pools remaining from the rain about two weeks ago. This explains the unexpectedly lush underbrush in this section of the Greenway in spite of the drought.