Bay Side of Mustang Island , Texas

1/18/10

Air Boat Follies

Rockport, Texas

A wonderful spring day on The Texas Riviera means the body was required to get out and about. So out to get in a good walk at the Municipal Park trail, except the Team got waylaid by the Rockport Beach Park. Walking on the pebbles and sand is a lot more strenuous than on the paved path at the other park. The Truck parked at the restroom building at the middle of the beach. There are also rest rooms at both ends of the park, thank goodness. It is set up just right for an old fat man.

The day was just a hint cool, but a very gentle breeze felt good as the walk progressed. There were a few folks out enjoying the day. By the time the north half of the beach had been walked, it was time to slow the pace a little. The pea gravel and sand was doing its job on my legs. If a lot of walks here get done in the next three weeks, BIBE will be easy for hiking. My dynamic personality heavily impressed these sea gulls as my path got about five feet from them.

They were equally impressed on my return trip. At least the flowers were happy for me to be there. Check out this show of spring blossoms they put out just for celebrating my return to exercise.


Now we will get a couple of pictures of having tooooo much fun. This nice fellow was playing with his RC airboat at the harbor pier. There was a nice crowd on the bulkhead watching the excitement as he ran the boat hither and yon on the water.

After he got the feel of the small waves and the boat, he started getting more adventurous with his “flying”. Some neat stunts were part of the show. Unfortunately my finger and camera are not quick enough to catch some of the stunts. This is a power turn he was making and throwing up a nice splash during the turn.

It was a very well balanced RC boat and he knew how to make it perform well.

The rest of the day was spent cleaning the Truck and the Castle until it was goofing off time. It was lazy bum time to top off the day of trying to have tooooo much fun. TheOFM.

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