We are getting close to the end
of our stay in South Padre Island. The weather has improved in February and we
are out on the beach pretty much every day, at least to give Kona enough time
to get sandy and wet and stinky. All the beachside dives are getting ready for
Spring Break next month. Dang! Too bad we will just miss it!
As we enjoy ourselves on the
beach walks, we check out all the hotels and condos – mostly condos – that line
the Gulf. Most of them are teeming with evidence of occupancy, if not just
having scores of people out on their balconies taking in the fantastic weather.
But many of the huge condo properties simply look abandoned. We’re not sure if maybe
some of the properties just don’t bother to try to fill up with Winter Texans
and only go for the summer vacationers, or maybe they just aren’t very good at
their marketing.
We have been birding somewhere
nearly daily. Any day we don’t go somewhere else we end up at the SPI Birding
Center at some point. Sometimes we will head to an inland birding spot, and we
still may end up at the SPI Birding Center later in the day. It may seem like
overkill to you, but we know that once we leave the Texas Gulf Coast we won’t
be birding for quite a while. Yesterday, this Great Egret nearly let the Woman
walk right up to it!
We headed into Brownsville to visit Resaca de la Palma State
Park. We had been here two times before, but never on a day when the visitor
center was open. We took a tram through the park and learned a great deal about
the flora and fauna common here. We were
a bit disappointed except for the very nice walk we had – saw only one Green
Jay and one Long Billed Thrasher. But on the way out we spotted this majestic
Red Shouldered Hawk. Another Lifer!
Talk to you soon!
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