Sunday February 1st, 2015.
This RV Park is small by the local standard. The park has only 48 sites. This means very little activities are taking place here.
The main activity is the morning coffee at the clubhouse. It is actually fun to go to because of the stories and inter-action between everybody. The sun is shinning so we sit outside, can you see me?
Michele and I decide to go for a bike ride for some exercise and look for more caches.
Here we are on a "boardwalk" for birding.
A blue heron.
Of course, you have to have a cache at the welcome sign.
The name of this cache is "Pirate Booty" and it is at the "X"!
The cache is right at the "X".
Aransas Bay.
The local population...
What a cache! This has to be one of the biggest cache we ever found. The name of the cache? Cachezilla!
To get to the actual cache, you have to use one of the keys to open the cache inside the cache!
Another simple cache, yet easy to miss.
After we are done with caching and biking, we get home to prepare for the "Superbowl 2015". Actually, it is Michele who watches the game because I only watch the last 5 minutes. With football, you have to have chicken wings, chips and beer. We are the real sports type!
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Monday February 2, 2015.
The weather is on the cool side so we go looking for caches in the afternoon. We are going caching by car because the caches are a few kilometer apart at times
When I say it can be dangerous at time, look at the needles on that tree!
A turkey vulture.
A surprising cache!
We are next to Port Bay and we are probably 1 to 2 feet above the water level!
I found this cache by pure luck. One of the branches is screwed on a real branch!
Clever!
I love looking for caches with Michele!
The next cache was a little more difficult to find. The name of the cache is "Red Herring, White and Blue"...Here is a cache that is not the cache!!!
Another one!
The left arrow indicates a red herring, the centre one too, but the right arrow is the "real" cache! We loved it!
A "Peter cottontail" cache. The arrow is where the cottontail was hiding.
This cache was a tough one! "A penny for your thought", we found 9 pennies glued to the fence. The tenth penny we found was the right one. This is the cache behind the penny...
Another cache.
This is a nano cache, they can be easy or very hard to find.
Many caches are located on private property with the permission of the owner.
The GPS is totally confused by this cache. It gives us different location each time we moved! It turns out to be under the windowsill.
After having found 23 caches today, we head home. We came across this deer on the way home.
This is the first time we found 23 caches in one day. We are at 186 caches found.
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Tuesday February 3, 2015.
We wake up to rain. I still went to the morning coffee, but I had to pick my time to come back as to not get wet.
With the rain, we decided to go to the movie.
We watched "Black or White" with Kevin Costner and Jullian Estell.
It was a good movie, we liked it.
Corned Beef brisket for dinner. Hummmm!
It turned out to be a good even with the rain.
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Wednesday February 4, 2015.
Another cool day, off to the aquarium in Rockport. It is free on top of that. We did not make it in! It is closed today. We will have to come back.
The Rockport marina.
The marina/waterfront area of Rockport is the place where most of the local attraction is located. The center for the arts is also located in this area. A few pieces of arts, like these dolphins, are also located by the marina.
A walking flower!?!?!?!? This is the real name of this piece...
In memory of Atmar Atkinson, a local man who did a lot of good things.
Big birds.
The Titanic? No, just a woman in the wind.
Since we cannot go visit the aquarium, why not do some caches. The first one is right next to the aquarium.
We head back home and Michele does not want to do more caches. Off I go by myself. Another cache I found by luck
As I mentioned before, some caches are located on private property with permission. It is still a little weird to go on somebody's yard and snooping around for a cache. The cache is located in that strange piece of equipment.
Others are just funny or scary!
A good day even being on the cool side.
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Thursday February 5, 2015.
A day like yesterday weather wise!
At the morning coffee, some people mentioned they were going fishing. I asked if I could join them just to watch how they fish the salt water. They said "sure".
Here we are at the bridge where they fish.
One of the fishermen is an 86 years old man called Jackie. Another one is called Gene and this is Louie.
We are in Port Bay and it is salt water.
After a while, I was about to leave when Louie caught a "black drum".
It is too small to keep.
On my way back home, I stopped to look at a few caches.
To go with the roast pork, we are having for dinner, I cook small potatoes and I roast them on the BBQ.
A very good meal. I currently have 200 caches found.
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Friday February 6, 2015.
With a cloudy day fore casted, we travel to Corpus Christi. We take the long way around by going to Aransas Pass and Port Aransas. It is more scenic of a drive.
Aransas Pass is another small town with fishing and tourism as the main employers. The oil industry is having more and more of an impact in the local economy.
When you are this close to the shores and the ground is only a few feet above the water lever, even mobile home have to be on stilts!
We have to take the ferry to get to Port Aransas. What? 15 minutes wait time!
We got on the ferry as soon as we arrived.
The ferry crosses the canal linking the Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Corpus Christi.
It is unbelievable to see all the petroleum industries, fishing industries and nature preserve coexist next to each other without any problems. Why can we do that in Canada? Some times, I just don't get people!
Port Aransas, we spent a month here in the winter of 2011/2012.
While on the ferry, a man told me my front tire looked very low. Shoot, it is low. I fill it up to 32 psi and I will watch it from now on.
Port Aransas is a resort town.
We finally made it to Corpus Christi.
Our first stop is at the Spec's liquor store. This is the biggest liquor store I have ever seen.
Michele shops in the thrift shops and I go looking for caches. Once we both got our fill of our activity, we head back home. We drive by the USS Lexington. We visited the ship a few years back.
This is water and island country. Bridges are everywhere.
Just pass the bridge the little town of Portland has a thrift shop and Michele wants to stop. OK, I will do some more caching I guess!
It is a Goodwill store.
I did not find my first cache here in Portland and did not have time to look for a second one...
After dinner, we got to skype with Jeremy and Gabriel.
It is always fun to skype with them...
Until next time...
Life is Good!
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