Rockport, Texas


		Rockport, Texas Rockport, Texas April 10, 1007 Yesterday we stopped for a few hours in the small town of Wadsworth and took our Saturn to the famous fishing village of Matagorda. A travelogue of that area is here: Matagorda & Palacios, Texas Our motorhome is in the Lyons Park the City owned Campground in Refugio, Texas. Jeffey City Park also known as Lions Park in Refugio has about 20 full hookup sites with 30-amp for $12 per-night located on West Empresario Street. You can call the city for information 526-5361 (sorry no area code) or you can just find a spot and someone from the city will be around to collect the $12. It is a real nice park as far as we are concerned but it may not have bathrooms and showers if you need that. Today was an exciting day, it really was. We visited three other places and made three other travel logs covering those adventures, you can access them here: Refugio, Texas Goose Island Oak or "Big Tree" At Goose Island State Park.....it is the Texas Champion live oak tree Mustang Island and Port Aransas via a ferry Mom's Bait Shop Rockport, Texas Baitshops in Rockport are an integral part of coastal ambience. Flemings Bait Stand Rockport, Texas One thing about Rockport bait shops is the paint jobs. Gaudy seems to be in style but I like it. VBG Whooping Crane Boat Tours operate out of Rockport Whooping crane tours are available in both Rockport and Port Aransas during the winter months when whooping cranes winter in this area. Coastal Live oaks shaped by wind A stand of live oaks on the waterfront in Rockport. Note how they have been shaped by the onshore wind. This is very characteristic of coastal oak groves. From Rockport we headed east across the Copano Bay Causeway to Goose Island State Park where the state of Texas has preserved an ancient live oak tree. Our sole purpose of heading across the causeway was to view this champion live oak. We cover our visit with the Goose Island Oak in another Travellog. Great Blue Heron & Snowy Egret at Rockport Marina Meanwhile, back in Rockport the easy life goes on. Great Blue Heron Docks around shrimp boats offer a great opportunity to view birds like these great blue herons. The smaller white bird is a snowy egret. Notice the snowy egrets yellow feet. Great Blue Heron Great Blue herons are a part of the ambience of seaport villages like Rockport. Great Blue Heron Great Egret Great Egret Great egrets like these make good subjects when visiting seaport docks. Shrimp boat Snowy Egret & Brown Pelican Shrimp boats and Great Blue Heron The back of this shrimp boat offered a wonderful opportunity to photograph a number of birds. On the left is a brown pelican in the water and a snowy egret on the back end of the boat. In the picture to the right is a majestic great blue heron. Next we headed to the ferry terminal at Aransas Pass where boarded this ferry that took us to to Mustang Island and Port Aransas but that adventure is in another Travellog: Port Aransas & Mustang Island. The Port Aransas & Mustang Island Ferry Click here for our adventures on this ferry and Mustang Island (Port Aransas) Click here for more Texas Travel Adventures More Texas Adventures Plants Trees and Flowers More 2007 Travel Adventures Mike & Joyce Hendrix Mike & Joyce Hendrix who we are We hope you liked this page. If you do you might be interested in some of our other Travel Adventures: Mike & Joyce Hendrix's home page Travel Adventures by Year Travel Adventures by State Plants Marine-Boats Geology Exciting Drives Cute Signs RV Subjects Miscellaneous Subjects** We would love to hear from you......just put "info" in the place of "FAKE" in this address: FAKE@travellogs.us Until next time remember how good life is.