Category: 2024 Snowbird Trip
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Umbrellas and a Hovercraft
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A rainy weekend changes plans a bit. Friday had mild temps and the rain was intermittent and light. Grab the umbrellas and walk anyway was the plan. Good movie and reading day as well. It doesn’t hurt to stop at a local establishment to have some refreshments in out of the rain as well! Saturday…
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Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow
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We so enjoyed having our friends Paul and Roxann as campground neighbors and hope to do it again next year. We toured, tried new restaurants and played lots of card games together. They headed back to Iowa today, taking three long travel days to get there. Once you winterize your RV, travel ceases to be…
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Critter Tracks and Kitty Cats
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We hear coyotes at sunset and people have posted pictures of them on the Isla Blanca Friends Facebook page. We found tracks to prove they wandered through our campsite at night. Catnip and Primrose seem to do fine in our smaller quarters. Cold nights finds them sleeping with us for part of the time. Primrose…
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Beach fun
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Most days the weather is nice; certainly nicer than at home. Humidity is almost always present, but it varies, too. Low-lying fog is very common this time of year. Wind varies in speed and direction a lot, with cool and windy days making beach walking a challenge. It’s best to have the wind to your…
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Dolphin Watch/Sunset Cruise
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I’m woefully behind on posts, but will get caught up. There are just so many fun things to do here, most of them right on the beach. We took a cruise to see dolphins and the sunset on a nice day while Paul and Roxann were here. We did see dolphins, and low clouds helped…
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Starbase and Boca Chica Beach
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We went back to Starbase, a spaceport where SpaceX develops and launches Starship rockets. That whole sentence sounds like science fiction. Starbase is expanding, and has lots of construction. The STARBASE letters along one building were blocked where we took pictures last year. Once again, as we drove near Starbase, our phones thought we had crossed the border.…
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Nude Beach
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Boy, that title really draws you in, doesn’t it? We had a beautiful day with a cool breeze to go exploring the beach north of where Padre Boulevard ends. It was a bit too cool to shuck the clothes as the old lifeboat suggested, though Tony stripped to his shorts for the photo op. Abandoning ship to…
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Card Playing and Exploring Restaurants
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Paul and Roxann, long-time friends, moved in next door at Isla Blanca Park, and we have been playing cards in the evening and exploring new restaurants together. Roxann and I walk each day and attend the Beach Body exercise class to help counterbalance those restaurant and card snack calories.
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Rescue and Release of Kirby, the house gecko
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I was taking a shower in the campground bathhouse, when I noticed what I thought was a smudge of dirt on the tile. Upon closer inspection, the smudge seemed to have legs and a tail—it was a teeny tiny house gecko that decided in this cold weather, that the bathhouse would be a nice spot. I took…
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Sea Turtle Release
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It was a windy, cool , 60-degree day for the sea turtle release at Cameron County Beach Access #4 on South Padre Island. The cold snap earlier in the week had stunned almost 1000 sea turtles that had to be rescued. They get too cold and float to the surface where they are in danger from boats…