Author Archives: Barry

Getting Warmer

Woke up to temperatures in the mid 60s with fog. The temperature continued to climb to around 80F but it was humid and overcast, with a couple of short sharp showers. It wasn’t a day for exploring so Lyn carried … Continue reading

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Suicidal Dolphins

Getting warmer! Today reached 21C, not quite as hot as the 27C forecast, but at least it was warm and dry. We headed back to Aransas to visit the University of Texas Maritime Research Unit. There were a series of … Continue reading

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Warmth at Last

A little late, I wrote it last night but it didn’t get posted. Shouldn’t really complain about the cool temperatures after finding out that most of Florida dropped below 0C the other night. This morning started out wet and about … Continue reading

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Wet, Windy,Cold, Miserable

We didn’t sign up for this!

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Dolphin Surprise

Clear blue sunny skies greeted us this morning, the cost of this was a further drop in temperature to 44F. Although cool, it was a good day to go exploring so we headed off to Padre Island. Essentially Padre / South Padre … Continue reading

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Luxury Returns

It’s a few degrees cooler up here, but still overcast and showery. Evidently February is the wet month. As you may recall, when we set-up at the previous site we had a couple of problems due to water freezing over … Continue reading

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Mud, Mud Glorious Mud

Well, the rain continued to fall so after speaking to the boss man, I figured the best place to be was inside the truck watching the worker bees! The plan was to fill in the ruts with what they called … Continue reading

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An INTERESTING Day

Last night it poured with rain for about 5 hours, not exactly what we wanted. When we got up the rain had stopped, and I figured with the 4 wheel drive and the low gear position we should be able … Continue reading

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Time to Leave

Finally the temperature started to climb. Woke up to an overcast 15C and it got up to around 21C. Still no sighting of the elusive yellow disc in the sky though. We started packing up the stuff today for our … Continue reading

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Blahhhhhhh!

The weather is continuing in it’s attempt to mimic a Southern Ontario winter. High today here was 11C, high today in Ottawa was 7C. The highlight of the day was returning some stuff to Wal-Mart!   ’nuff said!

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