I'm Walkin', Yes Indeed...

Day 16

Corpus Christi and Padre Island Texas

The weather was threatening - warm, overcast, muggy and very windy this morning.  I slept almost until 9:00 !  (big grin here) having the queen size bed all to myself for a couple of hours was nice. 

Had some breakfast and headed over the causeway for the beach on Padre Island.  We parked at the pier where we were yesterday and headed north on the hard sand beach.  A mile later we discovered a seawall which made the second mile even easier to walk.  It was a very enjoyable 4 miles and I usually don't enjoy a FOUR mile forced march. 


While we walked the beach we watched the seagulls hunting for food in the seaweed that washed up.  They seem to have an agreed upon distance between each other, about 12 feet.  Not nearly as much trash/plastic washing up here as on the Galveston beaches.  I thought it odd that there were no seashells on the beach. However, there were plenty of jellyfish, including a really strange looking one.  I emailed my son, the 'Great Identifier of Everything from the Sea', a photo of it...he will know.  It looked like a clear, plastic six inch oval with a sort of tail.  Some sort of jellyfish, I'm sure. 

A Jellyfish?

You never know what will wash up on the beach, wonder where it started it's journey?

But there were pelicans, so many pelicans!  We would see 'squadrons' of them approaching us while we walked.  One flock numbered over sixty and as they passed directly overhead we held our breath that NONE of the sixty would feel the need to uh....unload.  They are huge birds, they eat fish...do the math.  It would be SO not a good thing!  Thankfully after three 'squadrons passed our luck held.

We were almost back to the car when we saw the funniest looking dog.  As he and his owners neared, we tried to guess the breed, or rather what combination of breeds.  He had a long, dachshund like body, short bow legs, and a definite black lab head!  I thought his legs looked basset hound-ish too.  His owners said he was half black lab and half basset hound...I guess you could call him a 'Labbassett'.  Whatever he was, he was a super friendly little guy.  Wish I'd taken a picture!


We just beat the blowing mist by the time we got back to the RV, and it got chilly.  Jim was not put out at all, in fact, he was quite happy that it was an indoor sort of day...THE MASTERS GOLF TOURNAMENT
was on TV! 

Half way through...he looked like a LION!

Not a problem for me, I had a dog to clip  a LOT of dog to clip.  They are so many burrs in the grass this time of year, and being so short, they get covered. This time it was Rookie's turn. 

So much fur...

If I was God, I could have made another animal!