Friday, January 13, 2023

Mustang Island State Park, Corpus Christie

 On Wednesday, we packed up at Brazos Bend and departed for the Corpus Christie area. This about a 3.5 hour trip, 228 miles total. Nice easy drive on mostly back roads - which still have a 70 or 75 mph speed limit!  Also, it seems like every road or highway in Texas is under construction!

Mustang Island is a barrier island. The camping here is pretty much in a parking lot. Total opposite of Brazos Bend, and not someplace you really want to spend a lot of time just hanging out. 

Picnic table/w shelter and Grackles

The Gulf

Parking lot camping

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

Sunrise over the gulf dunes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What we have been doing is bird watching like crazy! We did a bunch more watching at Brazos Bend before we left there, and saw several more species we had never seen before, and got amazing looks at some birds that are usually very secretive. I won't bore you all with them...but will post a few pics at the end.

Same thing today, and saw 3 or 4 more new species-to-us species. I suspect this will happen more and more as we enter new habitats and areas.

A friend asked for details on some of the parks we have stayed in, so here goes:
In Mississippi: LaFluer's state park: $15 W/E, barely cell service, good bathrooms
Tombigbee State Park: $28 W/E ok cell, ok bathrooms
In Louisiana: St Bernard state park: $28/night W/E; very nice bathroom; wifi; good cell service
 In Texas, with purchase of TX state parks pass for $70
Brazos Bend State Park: $21 W/E; decent cell service; nice bathrooms but could be cleaner.
Mustang Island State Park: $70 for 3 nights, W/E; cell service good; bathrooms new but unheated; not very good ambiance. Beach camping (primitive) available. 
 
 
 
Me being goofy

Black necked stilt. Look at his leg under the water.

Reddish egret, white morph, doing the egret dance.

American Avocet, winter plumage

Whooping Crane family. Baby has a tag and tracking device on his leg.

Crested Caracara, in the Raptor family, a carrion eater.

 

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