Back traveling after a four month hiatus. For four months we’ve been relocating our home from Arizona to Texas: selling house, buying house, finding moving company, waiting for moving company to deliver, re-roofing, painting, updating lighting fixtures, putting up drapery rods and drapery. Fun, fun. But from our new base of operations outside Houston we took a short trip down to Corpus Christi. More Texas trips to follow (although there are a fair number of Texas trip blog posts already).
Given my affinity for National Parks, our first stop was the Padre Island National Seashore. (Not to be confused with South Padre Island and its resorts.)
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- Panoramic view of Malaquite Beach.
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- Lots of migratory bird life, but not today.
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- The beach is covered in tiny holes.
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- The holes are inhabited by tiny crabs (no bigger than a dime.).
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- Collecting seashells is allowed as long as nothing is still living in them,
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- Coconut?
On to the Texas State Aquarium.
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- In the shark tank.
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- Walking through the Caribbean Sea Encounter.
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- Not native to the area we were told.
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- But here in the aquarium…
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- Ocelot.
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- USS Lexington is across the water.
