Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Port Lavaca Texas




Monday seems to be “Moving Day”! With a Northeast wind of 20-25mph coming at us we crossed over from Port Aransas on the ferry, up route 35, thru Rockport and parked in the city park campground in Port Lavaca. The Lighthouse Beach Bird Sanctuary and Campground has about 60 camp spots and we got the last one that was right next to the beach and the ½ mile boardwalk that takes you out over the water and thru the salt march. Each camping area has a cement cabana that covers your own picnic table. No wifi but Harry has cable TV, so instead of driving me nuts by flipping thru 3 or 4 channels, now he has a multitude to torture me with!

Today was gray and cool so we rode the bikes 5 miles down, around and thru Port Lavaca’s “historic” downtown area. We checked out an eclectic mix of stuff in a really old hardware store. There is also a restored old movie theater which now has plays put on by local actors. Friday we are going to go see “On Golden Pond”!

Since we haven’t found any wifi yet, we’ll be visiting the local library to be sending our blogs and email messages. So – in case we don’t get any messages posted for a few days, here is our BUSY schedule: Wed and Thursday are to be gray and rainy so we are going out to explore the area’s other interesting towns, Port O’Connor, Magnolia Beach (supposed to be good kayaking there) and Seabreeze. We’re hoping for warmer weather so we can put the kayaks in the water on Friday or Saturday. We’ve got beaches to comb too! And then Monday is Moving Day again!