Not much to report

This past week has been a wet one. It's hard to believe this area of Texas has been in a drought for the past few years. Now the ground is saturated. The owner of the campground said he will have to raise the rates now that we all have water front lots.There have even been ibis and other wading shore birds fishing or frogging out behind us. The storm that made us so wet was the same one that paralyzed the US east coast with snow. If things don't improve this will be our coldest, wettest trip south yet.

The lake out back of our trailer.

I've been meaning to say a little about Rockport. It looks like it's really a summer town so we are here off-season. There are lots of Snowbirds about. And lots of RV parks. This is the only town I've ever been in were there doesn't seem to be any rules about were an RV park is located. There are small parks all over. The Chamber of Commerce has over 40 listed and I've sure there are many more. Also there are unimproved road allowances all over. Seems when the town was laid out over 100 years ago all these roads were thought to be necessary but I guess they never found the money to pave them. It drives my GPS crazy.

We are leaving on Wednesday for Big Bend National Park. I don't know if it will be an improvement but it will be a change. All the folks we have talked to about Big Bend have raved about it. We tried to find time last trip to Texas but couldn't so we don't want to pass it up this time.

We have been getting out and about here in Rockport. One cloudy day last week we drove to an area were people had told us they saw Whooping Cranes feeding.  It was foggy so photography was difficult. Didn't find any Whoopers but it was an interesting drive. We saw Sandhill Cranes and lots of other shore birds (including the Roseate Spoonbills, Carolyn's fave) )  as well as a housing subdivision with some strange looking houses. The one pictured had it's own lighthouse appendage attached. And no it wasn't a real lighthouse. At least, I don't think it is.

I've included a few random pictures because believe it or not a few blog readers have asked for more pictures. That's one thing I like about this blog, it's easy to add pics. These ducks to the left made interesting patterns in the sand as they swam about searching the bottom for food.