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Bird Paradise:

We are on the Great Texas Costal Birding Trail. We have moved north by thirty miles today and we are now camped on the Arroyo Colorado in a Cameron County Park called Adolph Thomae, Jr. The park itself is rather nice and caters to the hard-core fishing enthusiasts here in south Texas. We are on the mainland side of the Laguna Madre just inside the barrier islands along the Gulf Coast of Texas. We are just across the fence from the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. Continue reading Bird Paradise:

It Helps to be from Oregon:

When Judy makes up her mind to go for a walk, you might as well get your gear out and get ready. I had found a new Geocache two miles down the beach from the coach. We are currently parked in Nueces County Park at Balli Beach on North Padre Island in Texas. The cabin fever has become somewhat intense since it has been cold and wet and miserable for almost a week now. Short dashes out to the beach to watch the slate gray water beat against the white sandy beach does not assuage our wanderlust. Continue reading It Helps to be from Oregon:

Fair Winds and Hot Sailing:

I used to have a favorite one liner that I used at every opportunity. “I had fun last summer, I went sailing both days!” There was a time here in the Scappoose – St. Helens area that that could be literally true. When we first moved into the area in the mid seventies, we could never get ripe tomatoes out of our garden. Only little green tomatoes and even hanging the vines in the garage only produced little green rotten tomatoes. That is no longer true. Continue reading Fair Winds and Hot Sailing: