Can you find the bunnyrabbit in this picture?
Choke Canyon State Park
The day dawned at South Padre Island. The morning view. Coffee in the windshield.
I put a pin in the map for the pelagic birding tour. I’m not suggesting we took the motorhome 50 miles out, but that’s the reason the tour took so long. 50 miles to get to deep water so we could get pelagics. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201563872774147443355.0004c582cf68e9c98e366&msa=0&ll=27.5375,-96.965332&spn=6.650544,14.227295 We moved on. Finished the day at Choke Canyon State Park.
Wild Turkeys, White-tailed deer, and Javelina.
Can you find the Wild Turkey in this picture?
I put a pin in the map for the pelagic birding tour. I’m not suggesting we took the motorhome 50 miles out, but that’s the reason the tour took so long. 50 miles to get to deep water so we could get pelagics. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201563872774147443355.0004c582cf68e9c98e366&msa=0&ll=27.5375,-96.965332&spn=6.650544,14.227295 We moved on. Finished the day at Choke Canyon State Park. Wild Turkeys, White-tailed deer, and Javelina. Can you find the Wild Turkey in this picture? Birding adventure
Boat trip. Birding tour.
All day. 6am to 6pm. Pelagic birds; birds we can’t see from shore. Six lifers: Cory’s Shearwater, Audubon’s Shearwater, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Sooty Tern, Bridled Tern, Pomarine Jaeger. Hundreds of flying fish. A pod of 20+ pilot whales lolling about the boat.
And during a quiet moment I landed an albacore. 
All day. 6am to 6pm. Pelagic birds; birds we can’t see from shore. Six lifers: Cory’s Shearwater, Audubon’s Shearwater, Band-rumped Storm-Petrel, Sooty Tern, Bridled Tern, Pomarine Jaeger. Hundreds of flying fish. A pod of 20+ pilot whales lolling about the boat. And during a quiet moment I landed an albacore. On the road again.
Now we’re on the road in earnest. We left Gulf Waters on Sunday, July 22. We left Sandpipers today. Summer trip 2012 is underway. We start by going South. We’re at the southernmost tip of the South Texas gulf coast. South Padre Island. https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201563872774147443355.0004c582cf68e9c98e366&msa=0&ll=36.914764,-96.811523&spn=23.914038,56.90918
Before we left Gulf Waters
We took one last look at that lot that’s being developed; that nice one right on the end of the pond.
They’ve got the cement work done.
Now it’s time for retaining walls, pavers, and more planting.
We won’t be here to chronicle the rest of the job. We’ll just see what it looks like when we get back.
They’ve got the cement work done. Now it’s time for retaining walls, pavers, and more planting. We won’t be here to chronicle the rest of the job. We’ll just see what it looks like when we get back.