Awake: 6:05am Temp 49 sleep 6+25 cloudy overnight @ Brownsville, TX.
I make some phone calls this morning relating to our next campground
visit; also later, I call Anchorage to have our mail forwarded to a future
campground stop.
BIG PLANS TODAY: I have decided to take Kathy on another bird safari. This
time…..to a special place: “The Brownsville City Land Fill.” She’s pretty
excited & wants to leave immediately, but I insist that we have something
to eat first. It might be risky bringing food along to eat @ the landfill
area.
Lady Garmin does a good job of getting us there in record time. We had to
program (2) intersecting roads to hone in on, thereby getting us close
enough to where the big garbage trucks turning down a dirt road helped in
leading us there.
The place was fantastic! @ least I thought so…….birds everywhere. I took
many digital pictures to figure out later, using my bird book, as to what
I saw. Every time a fresh garbage truck would arrive & dump its load, the
birds (by the thousands) would get all excited. We climbed to the top of
this man-made mountain to get a closer look @ the heavy earth moving
equipment that’s doing the job; BIG equipment, only they were not moving
earth! Several birds I think I captured on camera: “Aplomado Falcon”,
“Cooper’s Hawk” & the “Turkey Vulture.” There were also hundreds of
seagulls. The rest I’ll need to do further research on.
We spent a lot of time @ this land fill area & I couldn’t help noticing
that Kathy was really getting into this birding stuff; she wanted to go &
find another birding area now. Then we realized: by the time we’d get
there, it’d be too dark to take photos. We make a quick stop @ the biggest
Wal-Mart we have experienced to buy milk before returning to our bus.
Again we walk the Winter Haven campground for an hr of exercise &
curiosity. Darkness fell during our excursion so we were treated with
seeing a lot of the campground occupant’s lit Christmas decorations along
the way.
8:15 dinner: called “Hay & Straw.” But it really was: Whole wheat penne
pasta, julienned ham with parmesan cream sauce, salad & garlic bread.
Late movie: “Anatomy of a Murder” with James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben
Gazzara, Arthur O’Connell, Eve Arden, etc. An exciting courtroom drama;
daring when released, tamer now. 1959. A must see so add it to your list.
High temp=65 Lights out: 12:18am
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