Blowing In The Wind

November 21 - 30, 2013

 

Happy Thanksgiving a few days late! We hope all of you had a wonderful day and we are most thankful for you all and our opportunity for this great adventure.

We have been hanging out in a place called Port Aransas for the past week. It is on Mustang Island next to Padre Island.

The wind has been blowing pretty much nonstop so our fishing adventures haven’t been very successful since the water is rough and churned. Apparently the fish are clean living fish. We did happen upon a few people taking advantage of the wind one day to fly kites. This one caught our eye!

A Unique Kite

 

Even though the wind has been pretty much nonstop and rain off and on, it does make for some beautiful sunrises. Izzy also enjoys the morning when we first go out after getting up as she tries to find these little critters that make these sand mounds everywhere.

Come On I Know You're In There

The Day Awakens

 

The harbor is a busy one with a lot of tug boats bringing in different tankers. When you look outside our window you see at least four or five out in the water at a time.

Hard at Work

The Birds Race

 

We did take a stab at fishing across the bay and to get there you take a short ferry ride. Izzy enjoys this to some degree since she can sit and look out the window at the water. She just doesn’t understand why she can’t go swimming, but we did reward her on the other side.

The Ride Across

 

She loves to help us fish as well as look for fish on her own. Remember in other posts I mentioned she likes to lick the fish when we catch them, well she isn’t too particular as she tasted the bait too!

Yap that's bait

Izzy Fishing

 

I am fortunate to be married to Steve since he has fish blood running through his veins and knows all the right things to do in getting the poles ready for us to cast. Too bad I just can’t seem to catch the fish as easily!

Getting Ready

Izzy Helping

The View from our Fishing Spot

 

We had a nice Thanksgiving dinner and then did a little tour of some properties on the water. This house caught our eye most likely due to the dolphin statue out front. Too bad it isn’t for sale, but in looking at others we would have to win the lottery in order to buy one in this spot anyway. The vacant lots are a bit more reasonable if you are a millionaire that is!

Tranquil

Wonder if this empty lot is for sale

Not for sale, oh darn

 

As the evening was coming we headed down to the park and marina area to do some fishing. This was a first for us to be fishing on Thanksgiving. This pelican must have thought we were really good at catching fish since it decided to land and hang out right next to me. I guess it didn’t know me very well since I hadn’t caught anything yet!

Hoping for thanksgiving dinner

As you can tell by how Steve is dressed it is a bit chilly and windy still but that didn’t deter us. It also didn’t deter about a dozen dolphins from hanging around and playing. This one was playing in the wave of this ship coming into the harbor. I bet he ignored his parents when they told him not swim out in front of moving ships! Since we were out at sunset on Thanksgiving, we were blessed with a gorgeous one!

Having fun

I'm not cold

Beauty in the sky

 

We will be staying here until Thursday December 5^th to take advantage of warmer sunny weather and just maybe catch some fish that are bigger than my hand!!