Laguna Reef Inn Rockport

10-14-2009
Day 7- Houston to Corpus Christi, TX
L.B. Johnson Space Center and Padre Island National Seashore

Well, today has proved to be interesting, yet seven days now we have managed to see rain. As we were driving to Corpus Christi sky was blue and out of the middle of nowhere a cloud burst. Honestly, I haven't seen anything like this before, very interesting.
So anyway, we got up and headed to the Space ...

I looked for a place to stay on couchsurfing dot com and found a place with some students. They were all really great. They took me out to a really good BBQ place where you order your food by the 1/2 pound or pound. I couldn't stop laughing. Later that night we all went out for some beers and a few games of pool. I didn't take many photos but I did get one of him and his dog doing a trick.

Heading from Boerne southeast towards the Gulf Coast, the landscape looked a lot like Saskatchewan. The fields have been prepped for seeding, although I'm not sure what the main crops grown in the area are. I was amused to see one farm with a quonset just like the ones back home on the Canadian prairies. The palm tree was the ...

... s supposed to be a haven for Sea Turtle habitation but we didn't see any signs that would indicate their prime locations. The only birds we saw are pelicans, herons, sandpipers and sea gulls. We drove on the eastern shoreline for about 10 miles only to dodge lots of garbage which is deposited by the daily tide (which rises only 1-2ft). Some of this junk is obviously the remnants of previous hurricanes but the majority of the garbage has been left behind by fishermen, swimmers and ...

Reporting from Rockport, Tx - a small town of grandma's, grandpa's, and bored children. But, this child isn't bored . . . Here it is, the gulf coast- The Dirty South! I've been coming here since I was a small thing- to this exact town. But, never have I explored its avenues; before, it was only one week at grandma's, who's house I have explored from showroom to shadows, and then we'd trailer ourselves back home to good ol' Waco, Texas for more psychological mind training ...

... They mate for life, a life that can last up to 35 years, they come to this area in winter because of the food supply - plentiful blue crabs and the bright red, juicy wolfberries (not wimberries you note!) and really pretty much anything else they can find. They are territorial, so much so, that after that incredible journey, with stops on the way of course, they come back to exactly the same spot every year. At present they have about 3 ...

... it's killer.   It was around this time that we discovered that there was a hot spring at Big Bend.  That's right a natural bath tub, right on the Rio Grande.  We wound up there 7 out of the 10 days we were at Big Bend.  True hot spring addicts.  The water was 105 degrees and was housed in a man made enclosure from the turn of the century.  Slightly dilapidated but in tact enough to comfortably have a warm bath and soak.  The water refreshed itself every 45 seconds and couldn ...

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