Monday, October 4, 2010
Pioneer Beach Resort, Port Aransas, TX - Jan 1-31
We started New Year's day with our customary anniversary celebration of brunch out. Later in the day we had Pat & Dennis over for a meal of chili (containing black-eyed peas for good luck!) & played more games, while watching Colorado lose horribly in the Fiesta Bowl.We have enjoyed a lot of birding here. We started out going to the Port Aransas birding center for their Weds am outings. We became friends with the leaders, & were invited to go along on several weekend trips with the Outdoor Audubon Club of Corpus Christi. We went to several inland ranches to look for birds in different habitats.
We have seen several new species this winter: Greater White-fronted Goose, Ferruginous Hawk, Common Ground-dove, Burrowing Owl, Buff-bellied Hummingbird, Marsh Wren, Lark Sparrow and Swamp Sparrow.
We have also enjoyed some tourist activities, including an interesting tour of Heritage Park in Corpus Christi, a group of historic homes that have been moved to a shared block in the downtown bayside area. The tour explains the history of the homes & tells about the people who first lived in them. We also visited Padre Island Natl Seashore, Goose Island SP, the South Texas Art Museum, & have taken lovely scenic drives. 
As a special bonus, one of our friends here catches more fish than they like to eat, so we have been the happy recipients of their "extra" fish. Doug has learned to be quite a good preparer of fish. We will really miss our fresh fish when we leave in a week!The cats have enjoyed our staying put for two months. They will surely hate seeing us getting ready to hit the road again. They continue to be what makes our RV really home.
Our last week was filled with a flurry of activities that we had not "gotten around to" earlier or our "last time" for doing special things. We will especially miss our great bridge games, the line dancing classes & the Port A birding center. Sunday we rented an electric car & drove on the beach for a couple of hours with Pat & Dennis & their 2 kids, who were visiting. We all took turns driving!# posted by Doug and Willie @ 10:12 PM 
