Day 86 - April 3rd - Last Resort RV Park - Rockport, TX

11:00AM headed NW along the Gulf for some site seeing -- Brenda and John declined invitation to join us. We drove highway 35 up through Tivoli and on to Port Lavaca, then across the causeway/bridge to Point Comfort. The Causeway and bridge is about 5 miles long across Matagorda Bay. At Point Comfort there is a huge Oil Refinery, but no name of the Company that owns it. I find that rather strange. for back home we wanted to advertise our companies presence when ever possiible. Here, with the sea salt and humidity everything rusts quickly, so most facilities are not too impressive. We turned back at Point Comfort and returned to Port Lavaca, left Highway 35 and toured through the Port. Stopped at a birding site along the bay.Oh sorry, wrong bird. How about this one? The one with the yellow gum boots.

Then headed for Port O'conner. Had to stop along a bayou that crossed the highway and take a photo of a couple of girls that had just caught a big Catfish. Port O'Connor is a neat little port town. Seems like everything is rather new. Lots of new homes, all up on 10 foot high stilts. At least they are prepared for the Big Hurricane!! Then on to Seadrift, another port town, but this one much older. Not many houses on stilts here, but do not seem to show signs of any hurricane damage. I guess these folks are a lot more familiar with the Gulf weather and confident that they are safe, than I would be. Now its getting on in the afternoon and time to head home. Arrived back at ELTORO at 6:30PM. We had put out a large steak to thaw before we left, and now got it onto the barbie. Supper of steak, potatoe salad, and fresh veggies. A great ending to a great day!