Morning Beach Walk

ROCKPORT, TEXAS

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Feeling frisky this morning the OFM chose a route we seldom take because of the unsteady footing. So we hit up the beach park and challenged the beach to a morning walk to see how the OFM could do with the unsteady footing. Too our surprise he did rather well so we may do this more often. Here was our starting point for all the excitement.

Another surprise is how many bird feathers were lying all over the place. The feathers ranged from black to white with lots of shades in between. They were randomly located between the grass line and the water line with no rhyme or reason we could figure out. No bird carcasses were in evidence so all we could guess was a natural shedding event.

One kind of jelly fish was frequent also. Lots of what we have always called "cabbage head" jelly fish were washing ashore. YES the tentacles will sting you very noticeably I am told. I never tested it myself.

Eventually we got to the end of the half mileish stretch we chose to use and looked the situation over. The final choice was to walk back along the park road to find out what we had missed.  It was a nice walk all the way back to Sierra just watching birds swooping around as more folks were starting to arrive. We hit it perfect for the morning walk.

Fishing was calling the OFM since we were ahead of the crowds expected. So we moseyed on over to a favorite spot at the harbor and on the first cast we landed the only fish we saw caught all the rest of the day. 

We only stayed about twenty minutes without another bite and chose to head on home to mess around. That seemed to have been a good choice since we went to Walmart about an hour later and the roads and parking lots were swamped with vehicles. Sticking close to home quickly became the preferred activity.

Merry Christmas and good night.