South Padre Island Birding & Nature Center The live Raptor show was fantastic. Over 3300 linear feet of bay-view boardwalks and paths that meander through 43 acres of freshwater ponds, island scrub brush, brackish and saltwater marshes.Five bird blinds set in the wetlands for great viewing. If you are going to visit this center be sure […]
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Port of Brownsville Dinner Cruise and dolphin watch
Port of Brownsville Dinner Cruise and dolphin watch Took a cruise up the Brownville Ship Channel to see where they decommission warships. One of the projects they were working on was the aircraft carrier Saratoga. This was a 4 hour cruise and included all you could eat shrimp dinner.On the way up and back dolphins caught […]
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Boca Chica Beach – Sabal Palm Sanctuary
Boca Chica Beach – Sabal Palm Sanctuary We road the motorcycle to Boca Chica beach, Rio Grande River, and the Mexico fence, and on the way back we stopped at Sabal Palm Sanctuary with the Historic Rabb Plantation House. We got to see the Rio Grande River. Would have stayed longer because there was over […]
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge
Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge One of our trips that was very enjoyable, and free on the day we went because the visitor center was closed that day, was to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. This refuge encompasses more than 97,000 acres but only a portion is open to the public. The ocelots, which are […]
Sea Turtle Inc. South Padre Island
Sea Turtle Inc. South Padre Island Spent some time at the Sea Turtle Rescue Hospital in South Padre Island. Learned a lot about the turtles and their migration and nesting habits. We were fortunate enough to see them being released in the ocean after being rescued from hypothermia. There was a sea turtle that had […]
Christmas 2016
Christmas 2016 We spent 6 days at Nick and Suzanne’s house.
Thanksgiving 2016 at The Newmans
Thanksgiving 2016 at The Newmans Made a quick trip in the car to Matt, Julie and Rainey’s for Thanksgiving. Stayed until Sunday.
St. Lucie November 2016
St. Lucie November 2016 Trip to St Lucie was to include a trip to NASA and the Bahamas. The trip to NASA was to watch a launch of a Saturn V rocket on the 4th unfortunately they rescheduled the launch until the 16th and then again until the 19th. We were also going to go on a […]
Walt Disney World October 2016
Walt Disney World October 2016 Had a great time with Julie, Matt and Rainey at Walt Disney World for 2 whole days. Julie, Matt and Rainey stayed a total of 10 days. Disney World is just as magical as we remembered from 20 years ago. Of course they have added several new parks, like Animal […]
Magnolia Messenger RV Rally October 2016
Magnolia Messenger RV Rally October 2016 This year we came a day earlier so we could enjoy the shrimp feast. The shrimp was provided by Jerry Grimmett. He brought 150 pounds. There was boiled, fried and spicy fried with all the fixings. Later on there was etouffee. On Thursday we had award winning chili cooked […]