Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Day 11 Texas Vacation Xmas 2008

Today is Tuesday December 30, 2008

Today we were up early and had breakfast downstairs, then around 9:30 am we drove out to the beach at the end of the road. Karen is going to look for more sea shells and I am going to practice flying my kite.

5580 South Padre Island Beach Texas 5581 Flying my Kite South Padre Island Texas

After about an hour, we headed back to the hotel and did a final load of laundry so that we would have enough clean clothes to get us back home. We are due to leave here in a couple of days to head back North to the cold winter of Ontario.

Later in the afternoon we went out to the Birding and Wildlife Center to see if we can find any birds that we have not seen yet. While we were there, I saw some kites that were much fancier than mine. When I get better with mine and learn some tricks, I will have to upgrade to one of these kites.

5608 Kites South Padre Island Texas 5614 Kites South Padre Island Texas 5738 Kite Flying at South Padre Island Texas

We did find some birds that we had not seen yet. A Blue-winged Teal, a Killdeer and a Long Billed Curlew.

5621 male Blue-winged Teal South Padre Island Texas 5636 Killdeer South Padre Island Texas 5645 Long Billed Curlew South Padre Island Texas

A Tri Colored Heron, a Red Head Duck keeping an eye on the Tri Colored Heron and a White Ibis.

5658 Tri Colored Heron South Padre Island Texas 5672 Red Head Duck Tri Colored Heron South Padre Island Texas 5680 White Ibis South Padre Island Texas

A Laughing Gull and a Marbled Godwit.

5686 Laughing Gull South Padre Island Texas 5696 Marbled Godwit South Padre Island Texas

After we got back from the Wildlife Center we wandered down to the end of our street to the Laguna Madre to watch the sun set. Too many clouds, but still pretty.

5757 South Padre Island Texas 5762 South Padre Island Texas

To see all of our photos from today you can see them on my FLICKR site.

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