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Places Visited: Wednesday, June 15: Balmorhea State Park; Balmorhea, Texas I-10 exit 192 east bound and exit 209 west bound. $20 -- 50-amp & water with central dump, cable TV & free wifi; paved interior roads and sites: N30° 56.675' W103° 46.965' We are traveling east on I-10 heading to our home (stick & brick) in Pensacola, Florida. We stopped for the night in Balmorhea State Park. Balmorhea is one of our favorite stopping places when passing through west Texas. Balmorhea State Park Campground has 50-amp connections with cable TV and free wifi for $20 plus the huge spring/pool. Swimming Pool and San Solomon Spring at Balmorhea State Park: Balmorhea, Texas
We always enjoy sitting under the trees near the pool/spring where we can watch the abundant bird life. We were treated to a number of orioles, black phoebes, western kingbirds, numerous hummingbirds, vermillion flycatchers, night hawks, barn swallows, cave swallows, Eurasian collared doves, Gambel's quail & white wing doves. We normally see a roadrunner or two but didn't see one today. This picture is only one half of the pool. At the far end this pool dog legs to the left exposing another section of pool as large as the one in the photograph. This end is the deep end while the other is more shallow.
Ground squirrel in Balmorhea State Park: Balmorhea, Texas
They call these things ground squirrels. They do look like the ubiquitous gray squirrel that has taken over virtually every yard & park east of the Mississippi River ------------- except for their color. As darkness settled over the area we stationed ourselves under one of the picnic table roofs in the Campground where bats roost. These bats are known to roost in two of the campground sites. We asked one of the rangers which ones they were in so we would not be sitting under the wrong roof. However, we never saw any bats emerge. They have their own time table for emerging and may have held back because of our presence.
Davis Mountains as seen from Balmorhea State Park: Balmorhea, Texas
Even though we missed the bats emerging from the tile roof over the picnic tables the evening wasn't a total loss as you can see from the following pics.
Davis Mountains sunset from Balmorhea State Park: Balmorhea, Texas
Joyce took these pictures of the sunset from Balmorhea State Park in Balmorhea, Texas looking to the southwest. This is not the first time we have stayed in Balmorhea State Park we have written about Balmorhea and Balmorhea State Park before. If you are interested here are links: 2. 2007 23aa Balmorhea State Park 4. 2005 40 Balmorhea This is the one you are reading currently so we will not link to it. 5. 2003 Balmorhea and west Texas including Carlsbad, New Mexico 6. 2001 Balmorhea including Junction and Ft Davis, Texas
Davis Mountains sunset from Balmorhea State Park: Balmorhea, Texas
Joyce took these pictures of the sunset from Balmorhea State Park in Balmorhea, Texas looking to the southwest
Davis Mountains sunset from Balmorhea State Park: Balmorhea, Texas
Joyce took these pictures of the sunset from Balmorhea State Park in Balmorhea, Texas looking to the southwest
Until next time remember how good life is. More Texas AdventuresAdventures by State ** More 2005 Travel Adventures
Mike & Joyce Hendrix
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