MORNING WALK

 MORNING WALK

ROCKPORT TEXAS

DECEMBER 23, 2004

This morning we decided to take a morning walk at the beach park before it fills up with folks for the Christmas holidays. This walk is a short part of a longer walk of over two miles. We pulled in and got parked at the restroom gazebo and started our walk from there not planning where to finish in case lots of folks showed up before we finished.

The sand in front of the gazebo is tough walking when freshly raked and it was very freshly raked so the heart beat rate skyrocketed for the moon. 

But the OFM made it across the parking area to the ski basin shore to continue our walk. 

The ski basin shore in this area is oyster shells loosely laid on the sand surface and the whole mess is fairly soft to be walking on.  It is very easy to stumble and fall in this area.

We followed the general walking path on around the whole area back to the road we came in on. Then we crossed over the road to go to the beach.

When we got across the road we noticed a fellow working the area over with a metal detector. It is a hobby of a great number of folks in this area of the state.

Then a few steps later we were out onto the beach and needing to choose which way next. One of the fun things about this area is frequently you have to choose which of several paths to take for the next part of your walk.

This choice headed us back toward Sierra and the main restrooms. Rest room locations are always of importance to old men. Then it was a left turn at the pier and straight ahead to Sierra politely waiting for us.

That closed the morning loop a bit short of the wanted mileage for walking the OFM. However we made a point of walking several shorter walks by parking at the far end of parking lots while out shopping for Comfort Castle's resupply stuff. As it turned out the whole day was a bright sun and cool breezes day to enjoy outside.

Merry Christmas every one.