Thursday, March 18, 2010

Aransas National Wildlife Refuge

Today we talked

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Rod and Deb into getting up early to go to breakfast.  As you can tell by the look on Deb’s face she wasn’t really excited about the idea of early, but once at

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Alice Faye’s, all was good.  After breakfast, we were off to

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the Wildlife Refuge.  The first stop was the

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Visitor’s Center.  Here, Deb and I found the Park Ranger so we could add

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one more cancellation stamp to our national passport books.

Once we had

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our books stamped, it was off for the tour.

At

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this friendly face.

Rod

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was then on the lookout while Deb was all excited about using Mark’s 300 lens for a few close up shots.

On down the road, we found

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these footprints in the sand.  We aren’t sure, but were hoping they might belong to the

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Whooping Cranes who are know to hang out in this area.  Only one way to find out, and that is to walk

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up,

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up,

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up, to the top of the observation tower.  And,

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when Deb and I could figure out which end of this thing to look out of….you could see

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for a long way.  And, sure enough….in just a little while…

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there they were…the Whooping Cranes we had come to see!  Wow….forget that 300 lens…we need that 400 lens!

Next on the tour, we met up with

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Mr, Raccoon, who stopped right beside the car looking for any hand outs we might have.  Sorry, little fellow, the sign says “No Feeding The Wildlife”…guess you are on your own today.

His friend, the

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armadillo, didn’t seem to mind us, as he was busy looking for his lunch.  And,

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these deer stopped to watch us as they headed across the road to where the grass seemed to be greener.

And, last, we couldn’t resist the

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beautiful

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butterflies and

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blue and

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red flowers that are telling us that Spring is just around the corner.

What a great day with great friends…truly…Life Is Good!

9 comments:

  1. Oh yeah, I'm getting one of those lenses!! Thanks, guys for a GREAT day today!

    Debbie & Rod

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  2. We went there two years ago, and stayed until it was almost dark, and even then didn't want to go home. I drove that nature loop twice, but the cranes were way far away from the tower so we had to kind of imagine them. We enjoyed going back again with you guys today.

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  3. Hey guys great post today... Looks like a great place to visit and getting another cancellation stamp~~ that is a HUGE bonus! Deb's look was so fun... guess she isn't a morning person☺☺☺
    Have fun & travel safe
    Donna

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  4. What a fabulous day you enjoyed, even if it did require an early wake-up call! Loved all the great photos today. Thanks for the wonderful tour.

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  5. Loved all the photos!! Looks like y'all are having a blast. Tell everyone hello from us. Hugs & love, Gina & Rollie

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  6. Oh what a lovely place. Thanks for the great photos!


    Karen and Steve
    http://kareninthewoods-kareninthewoods.blogspot.com/

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  7. Oh what a lovely place. Thanks for the great photos!

    Karen and Steve
    http://kareninthewoods-kareninthewoods.blogspot.com/

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  8. Great Photos and tour of the Wildlife Refuge. We have been there once, and look forward to going back again someday. Thanks, Sandy

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