Counting Down

The top 2 photos are of the pink spoon-billed birds which were in the pond behind our coach. The one photo also includes the beautiful white egret. We always take photos of the beach so I decided to take a photo of our park from the boardwalk leading to the beach. From the boardwalk if you look west you can see Corpus Christi Bay and east of course is the Gulf. The bottom 2 photos were taken on one of our trips into Corpus. I love the gazebos and got a great photo that shows the marina behind it. There are gazebos lined up along the city waterfront. There are several parks along the waterfront as well. What a great place to live (or visit).

Counting down. Royle is getting his mind on what he has to do before we head out. I am still in denial.

KING RANCH, KINGSVILLE, TX

Yesterday we went to Kingsville to tour the King Ranch. It is an 825,000 acre working ranch with cattle, horses, and various crops. A tour bus took us on a 1 1/2 hour trip through a portion of the ranch. We drove by the huge, beautiful house but the bus is not allowed to stop so we could only get photos of the house from the bus. I was able only to get the porch area of the house.

The story behind Richard King and the history of the ranch is very interesting (King-Ranch.com if you are interesting in reading about it). In 1830 Richard King, at the age of 11, was living in New York when he stowed away on a ship going south. In the mid 1800's he started buying up land. He died from cancer when he was 60 and his wife continued running the ranch along with family members.

I was able to get a pretty good photo of the Texas Longhorn but they only keep a few head for historical purposes.

Still in Port Aransas, TX

Photo of the grands holding pottery they made.

Photo of Royle playing his new favorite game - Sudoku.

Turtle photo taken at Port Aransas Wildlife Refuge

It is hard to believe we only have another 6 weeks here - time goes so fast even when we don't do anything.

We had a nice New Year's Eve with a couple we first met in Indiana when we were both getting coach work done. We spent many hours in the waiting room and we went to breakfast one morning. They showed up in this park a couples weeks after we arrived. They will be here until the end of March.

The weather changes so much from day to day. We've had to take out our winter coats and wear them for a day or two and then put them back when the temperature gets back in to the 70's. But, we love it here and plan to make reservations for next winter before we leave at the end of February.

MERRY CHRISTMAS, PORT ARANSAS, 2008

Sunrise_Sunset 12/20/2008

I got to the beach early with a friend. We wanted to get a photo of the sunrise on the shortest day of the year (bottom photo). We were afraid it would be too foggy. It took about 15 minutes for the sun to get above the fog but it turned out it was a quite beautiful sunrise. The sunset was especially bright. We have a great site to catch the sunsets from our window. We will be moving to another site on 12/31 and I don't think we will have such great views from our windows.

PORT ARANSAS

Enjoying Pioneer Beach - wanted to share a few photos. The first is one Royle was able to get when Venus and Jupiter were lined up with the moon to make a face. The sunsets are always great (I am planning to go to the beach early today - shortest day of the year - to get a sunrise - if it isn't too foggy). The last one was taken at the Port Aransas Wildlife Refuge. We got lots of neat photos of the wildlife but wanted to show this one because of the freighter going down the channel.

PORT ARANSAS, MUSTANG ISLAND, TEXAS

We changed our travel plans - we had planned to stay the month of Dec. here at Pioneer Beach RV Resort but decided to stay 3 months. So, we will be here through the month of February.

If you are interested in seeing why this is such a great location you can checkout the resort website at :
www.pioneerresorts.com

I added a new link to the right - it is a google map showing our travel route so far this year.

This photo is one I took last year - one of those days I was up early enough to catch the sunrise