Port Aransas, Mustang Island Beach...

It's been busy here but I just came to a screeching halt (pinched disc once again) so I decided it was past time to post a few photos of one of our summer adventures...

I was sitting down at the pool late one night when I thought a trip to the beach sounded like fun. I got back to the house and booked a room at the beach for the next day and we woke up and took off for a couple of days at the beach, love it!

 

 

Mustang Island Beach...Beautiful day and awesome weather!

 I love our Jeep, love that it can take us down the beach away from the crowds.

 

Michael immediately got out of the jeep and headed for the waves!

 

He's still in boogy board phase, which I'm glad. I am sure when he's older it's going to be surf boards and bigger waves, ekk.

 

Lots of sea cucumbers...

 

And of course Michael had to set up a military base...

 

Wouldn't be the beach without a seagull or two or a million of them, lol

 

as we were leaving for the evening we watched these two guys trying to launch...

 They weren't having much luck.

 

 

5:30am is a bit early MOM!!

LOL...I wanted to catch the sunrise which meant an early morning wake up call...oops!

 

Gorgeous!

 

There's the sun!

I had big problems with my camera fogging up. The hotel room was super cold and we couldn't get it to warm up in there. Made for a miserable cold night and then when we got to the beach and the humidity was 100% the camera lens fogged up big time. I finally had to turn the heater on in the jeep and set the camera on it to get rid of the moisture...took me awhile but thank goodness I didn't completely miss the sunrise and got some great photos!

 

Rainbow behind us in the clouds, beautiful

 

Michael was having fun digging and building a moat

 

 

I took a lot of photos of the sunrise, it was just too pretty!

 

One of my favorite photos..

 

 

Not me those waves are too rough! He did turn around and come back in...

 

Breakfast anyone?

 

 

I was being watched...

 

8 years ago Fred and I took a dolphin tour with Kahootz. Michael has been after me to take him on a dolphin tour so I booked one for us...So glad Kahootz is still giving tours, we enjoyed it!

Totally relaxed and looking forward to the ride...

 

Bottlenose Dolphin.

They told us they had lost count at 35 when it came to baby dolphins this year.

 

 

frigate bird

 

 One of the babies playing around...

 

 



 Mom with her young one...

 

 



A young one checking us out...

 

Beautiful day for a boat ride

 

Tern following the boat...

 

Not something I'd want to try but Michael saw them and loved it! If he ever does it it's going to be without me!

 

Tankers and a tug boat in the inner coastal canal...

 

 They're up and off...

 

 

 Lydia Ann Lighthouse, near Aransas Pass.

 

 



Coast Guard in Port Aransas...

 

Polly Anna a gulf coast shrimper...

 

We had a great time and it was so nice to get away to the beach for a couple of days!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Down at the creek this evening...

 

It's really depressing for me to go to the creek right now. It's all dried up and there's no water in it and it really makes me sick to think of all the fish that have died. There are a few puddles and pools here and there and I've seen a few spotted gar and maybe one or two bass hanging on but unless things drastically change in the next week or two they'll be gone too.

 

I'm standing in the middle of Coleto creek, normally there is 3 to 4 feet of water here, not anymore!

 

Great Blue Skimmer

 

A wildflower I found in the creek bed...

 

 

Mustang grapes

 

 

Leopard Frog, a youngster.

 

This was a fishing spider. They are huge and (I think) very pretty. This one wasn't so lucky and something cut it in two, rather strange. I just never know what I'll find at the creek. I had to cut my walk short as it was getting dark.

 

We've put a large tub filled with water out for the deer. I've also had to put an electric fence and some liquid fence around the pool. A lot of my plants around the pool have been decimated either by the deer or by the wandering herd of cattle (that nobody seems to own)...sure wish we'd get some rain! I also wish the owner of the cattle would come forward too and claim their cows, they are tearing up the neighborhood and none of the local government officials seem to care either.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A poem by Hollie McNish

I agree with her I think we should get use to this...

Happy 4th of July...

 

We spent a quiet day at home. Me canning Salsa and Fred and Michael watching TV. Fred's sister and Mother came over for a little while and we swam in the pool for a bit. I gave Michael $20 for sparklers and small non-aerial fireworks and tonight I set up the camera and Michael and Fred had fun playing...

 

 

 

 

I didn't have time to focus on these and Michael was moving fast...I just let him go and have fun!

 

 

Fred really needs to get a little more creative with the sparklers, he basically just stood there and held it, lol...live a little babe!

 

 

So glad Fred was home to enjoy the sparklers with us tonight! Michael loves his Dad and loves spending time with him doing things like this!

 

 

 

 

Whoosh and they were all done!

 

Our county is under a burn ban and aerial fireworks have been banned but guess most of the people in the neighborhood were not aware of this as there were a lot going off around us and are still going off. Praying there are no brush fires tonight, it's awful dry out there. It seems like it's been years since we haven't been under a burn ban on July 4th, sure wish we'd get some rain.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Splashway fun...

 

We really had fun today at Splashway...6 boys and lots of water!

 

 

Michael loves his friends and had a really great day spending time with them!

 

Not an easy feat but Kelly and Amanda managed to get all the boys on the floating and bobbing Octopus for a photo, yeah!

 

So many smiles and so much splashing and water fun!

 

 

Hope y'all have a good 4th of July! It will be a quiet day at home for us. Our county is under a burn ban so no fireworks for us.

 

 

 

 

NYC photos on Flickr...

I just posted 316 photos to Flickr of our NYC trip. They are in a set and I love the way they set the photos up to view, really neat.

Click here to head to the NYC Flickr photos to check them out!