Art day on the Rockport docks

Well, Rockport was all a buzz with the Artist's on the dock.  Everyone had a painting project they were working on and they were all very friendly.  They told me that you can take art lessons in the building directly across from the docks.  I would love to do that but I don't think your Dad was crazy for it.  It was fun seeing what everyone was doing, anyway.  They said they meet once a week and paint, so maybe we will see them again.  On our way to Rockport we saw this man walking on the water.  Then we came across the sign about the Alligators.  Very cool...  On the way home we ran into the "Bird Convention."  They all seemed to enjoy one another's company and were not afraid to get their photo taken.  I am creating a movie about Port Aransas that will be on Youtube, soon.  Be on the lookout for it....love, Mom

Mom has fun in the Sun...

My friend the Pelican, sits on the edge of the pier and surveys all that goes on.  We watched the big ships going out to sea through the channel.  This one was very pretty because of its red color in the fog.  We watched a guy catch a Sea Turtle on the beach and another guy preformed surgery on it and they threw the Turtle back in the Sea.  The photo is of the "hero" that saved the Turtle taken just before they threw him back in.  As you can see I am having fun in front of the sandcastle by the Sea.  It was the second day that it was there and I was glad to see that it had survived.  As you can probably see the weather is beautiful and we are enjoying the warm days.  More tomorrow about Rockport....We will go out to dinner tonight and maybe Dad will start to fish, tomorrow.  He has been talking to lots of fishermen and getting pointers.  I think he will be ready to fish himself , soon.  He met fishermen from Big Fork on the dock, yesterday...More adventures to come...love, Mom

First Day in Port Aransas....Sandcastles by the Sea

Very cool stuff here in Port Aransas.  We drove along the beach and found a cool sandcastle by the Sea.  The front of the sandcastle talks about winter in Texas and the back said "Porta" and had a very cool lizard on that side.  We watched from the beach and saw the huge ship sail by.  Farther down the beach everyone was parked watching the ship come into Port.  Steve thinks he will go fishing off this Pier tomorrow.  I liked the cool looking Seagull on the pole today.  He looks like he thins he owns the place around here.  Todd, Dad and I have noticed how many people are here from Iowa.  Dad told me I needed to tell you about it.  We also think the Iowa crowd drive really fast around here.  Very strange.  Well, we are glad to be settled here in Port Aransas.  I am hoping to get some really good photos of new birds.  They seem to like it around a lot.

Scoping out Port Aransas...

Thank the Lord, I decided that we should go to Port Aransas and scope out our RV site before heading over there tomorrow.  When we got there they did not have us scheduled until Feb. 7th.  So we looked around and decided to stay in there overflow parking lot for a week.  Having a home to go to tomorrow, we decided to go see Rockport across the Bay.  We took the tinest Ferry I have ever been on.  It must have held only about 10 cars and took about 5 minutes to cross the Bay.  When we were looking around Rockport we found" Mom's bait shop."  As we drove farther down the coast we came to the cool art work on the side of this building.  Then we pulled into this parking lot and found this cool bird just hanging out there.  We will go to Walmart and H.E.B for supplies tomorrow before we head out to Port Aransas.  We plan on eating out tonight for the first time since we have been here.  A little hole in the wall called "the Reef" or some thing like it.  I am really enjoying all the birds down here.  The Seagulls are even different around here.....More adventures tomorrow.....Mom