February 8, 2012--Down to Corpus Christi

It was a long day, but it was a good day.  We left around 9:30am and headed south down Hwy 123.  We drove through Victoria.  The landscape turned into flat farm land.

 Our first sight of the San Antonio Bay.

San Antonio Bay

 We then drove through the Goose Island State Park and viewed their campgrounds on a complimentary pass.

 Just outside of the park was a tourist attraction called "A Big Tree".  We saw this man and his team of horses out enjoying the beautiful day.

A Big Tree

 Gary wanted me to get a picture of a Spanish Style home.  I choose this one.  It was a beaut.

After we left this house we came to the intersection of Park Road and Hwy 35 we were stopped for construction work.  We waited, we waited, and we waited.  Finally we decided to go back north and go home.  We ended up at Refugio.  We had lunch at Whataburger, got some tea for the driver, and he decided he really wanted to drive to Corpus Christi and I wanted to see King Ranch so we headed back south.  We were there, might as well do it!

 We are crossing the bay here.  Water on both sides.

Corpus Christi Bay

 I tried to get a picture of the Skyline.

Corpus Christi

Map on my Lap so we Don't get Lost!
More Important, so we don't forget were we have been!

 Now we can see the skyline in the distance.  Great view!

Nice homes along the seashore.

Bay full of ships!

We drove further south to Kingsville and headed out to the ranch.

Entrance to King Ranch

Well we made it at 4:30pm and the Visitor's Center closed at 4:00pm.
BUMMER!  It is somewhere we would like to return and take a tour.  There were several tour vans out front.

So we went to the restroom, got back into the truck and headed north to Seguin.

We stopped and had ice cream.  Blizzard of the Month is Chocolate Covered Cherry--pretty tasty.

We listened to the KU vs Baylor game on the Sirius radio and made it home in time to see the second half.