A Drying Day

The Great Blue Herons

We are now in a period of warm air for the next few days. We went out this morning gunk holing around to give our carpets a little more time to finish the drying process. There are so many docks to explore and today we met a few interesting characters hanging around. This little guy was not afraid of us at all. A step towards him and a step back by him...a little two step happening. These pictures are from Bob's camera with his 42 power zoom.

The waterways here are so shallow between the coast and the outer water of the Gulf that boats are primarily shallow bottomed, a whole different breed than we are used to seeing. Until you get into the boats that fish the deeper outside Gulf waters and they are really big boats. Today as we were busy with our herons we watched a Texas Ranger police car leading in a 35 +\~ foot patrol boat with 3 - 300hp motors come to the dock. They are a regular patrol boat monitoring the inland coast for drug and alien smuggling activities. They can travel at an average speed of 45 knots for about 4 hours on a tank of 330 gallons of fuel, valued at $1000. Very cool looking boat with three Texas Rangers aboard. I asked if they took ride alongs. He said sometimes but we were not invited to come along. Too old for the adventure, maybe, lol. Oh well!

Can't help but put more of these very cute birds on the blog. This guy blocked our exit from the wharf.....it seemed he was almost as interested in us as we were in him.

An afternoon back at the park, a visit with our landlords, Shorty and Tom...a gift of chocolates from them to us..(me), lol, and a painted card from us to them. It does feel like the right place for us to be. Good people, a quiet park, a sense of security and lots of exploration ahead of us.

 

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