Sunday February 3rd 2013 I headed to San Antonio and met up with Erica and Tom, and we "ran" the Superbowl Transplant for Kids 7K Run. It was very cool. It was held along the Riverwalk near downtown San Antonio, where the Riverwalk is more like a park and doesn't have all the shops and restaurants. The San Antonio River flowed over dams and was landscaped beautifully. I even saw many birds, including a green or tricolored heron. My time was 1:03:39 (one hour three minutes thrity-nine seconds) and I walked the entire race. Pace was 16:46 After the race, I headed back to Fredericksburg and got Leta and all our luggage and supplies for the next few days and we headed to the HEB Lodge in Fulton.
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| On the Road Again too, Geocaching travel bug |
We met up with Stefanie, Mark, Luke and my pal Abby in Port Aransas and spent the night at the Days Inn there, as we couldn't check into the Lodge until Monday. We ate breakfast at the Hotel and then headed out to do some Geocaching. Our first find was at Mustang Island State Park and Abby found the cache that was so cleverly hidden, I doubt if I would have found it! We found the second geocache at the State Park as well and a third one back in Port Aransas. We 'dropped' our travel bug into the third cache and hopefully it will be moved on!
We check into our cabins we got Cabin 11 and were able to drive right up to it, instead of hauling our food, clothing and supplies back to the cabin. Then we headed out to the beach. Finding it took a bit of an adventure! The weather was kind of cool, so we didn't get into the water. We did see guys using huge kites to propel themselves through the water though and they would leap high into the air, almost "parasailing." The only bad part of the day was the Giant Crab guarding the beach!
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| Gives me the shivers! |
We returned to the cabin and had homemade pizza and played games until it was time to go to bed. Stefanie for once did not win every game, but then again she was errr "slightly distracted"(!) by these guys. Her "dance" was more entertaining than the games!
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| Terror approached the Cabin! |
On Tuesday the weather was a bit warmer and we headed to Port Aransas, crossing to the island on the ferry from Aransas Pass. We headed to the beach where Luke squealed with delight as each wave hit him! He loved it all and had no fear. Even getting mouth full of the salt water didn't face him. Although I do think the handful of mud that he tried to eat, and the subsequent 'washing it out' by mom and dad did phase him abit!
After the beach we headed out to do some birding and went to the birding center where we did see lots of birds, turtles, an alligator skull(?), and even a live alligator across the bay. Took this picture so we could try to identify this bird later.
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| What am I? |
That night Abby told us she wasn't "'Literally' born in Austin", and used "finger quotes" to emphasis her statement. Leta asked her is she was 'literally from outspace'. Abby has developed a habit of insisting she is correct and failing to back down! Her and I had a little 'tiff' in the HEB in Aransas Pass about the price of Sprite vs the HEB brand.
On the final day we were there we did get some RAIN. It rained so hard, I thought maybe a hurricane was coming in, and we 'literally' had ducks right outside our windows!
Altogether another GREAT trip! Leta and I will be heading down there again in a couple of weeks with out good friends Woody and Bendy. We are going to get some great birding in!
Gotta run for now...
TDG
