One German immigrant described the Guadalupe Rover as ‘perhaps more beautiful than any other river in the world’, adding this poetic description: “O, the Guadalupe! Its water, clear as day, flows ten to twenty feet deep over the rocks. The rocks and green, luxurious plants and fish and tortoises and snakes and alligators appear not as if they were in the water but rather as if surrounded by green, transparent air....And the trees and cliffs, how picturesquely they overhang the stream and bathe their feet in the water!” — Viktor Bracht, Texas in 1848.

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