Disaster!

Woke up to the sound of the furnace running. The sky was blue and the temperature around 12C.

Lazing around after breakfast and disaster struck, the internet went down! About 30 minutes later it returned, so life got back to normal. The internet here has been pretty good, it is only the second place we have been to where we have not needed to supplement the campground internet with our own data stick. Although speeds are very good at around 4Mbs, there is an odd phenomenon with this internet, if you haven’t accessed it for a while, even though you have remained connected, it takes a few tries to connect to a site, this makes our VOIP phone a little iffy, but normally once the call is established it works well.

This afternoon we headed out to Suter park, another wild life area about 20 miles away. I have to admit, Lyn was very well behaved on this journey as it entailed driving past the JoAnn fabrics store, there were a few tense moments, but once the store was out of site Lyn calmed down again.

Disaster #2 struck as we approached the Park, there was a policeman at the traffic lights across from the entrance; as we were about to cross the lights (on green) he signaled us to stop. As we did, a police motor cyclist, complete with flashing lights, escorted a guy on a push bike across the red light. Once he had passed we were waved on. Very odd, but as we got into the intersection we saw that there was a truck and cones blocking the park entrance. Having driven 20 miles we were not amused, however a quick drive around showed that there was another entrance. We walked for about a mile along a gravel track, then joined a boardwalk out to the edge of a bay, at the side of the track we saw a red flower, which we found out was a coral bean.

Coral Bean, Suter Park CC,Tx

At the end of the boardwalk was a small shelter overlooking the bay, on the far side  was the main campus of the Texas A&M University, and next to it is the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. About 100 yards out from the shelter were several hundred birds in the water creating quite a noise. Among the birds were Pelicans, White Pelicans, Egrets, Ibis, Moor Hens, Skimmers, Roseate Spoonbill and a variety of unidentified ducks. The skimmers were interesting as they fly very slow and low with their bill in the water looking for food.

WhitePelicans, Suter Park CC,Tx

Back at the campground we were treated to a rare glimpse of a sunset.

Sunset at Seabreeze. Portland, Tx