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a cold gray day at the beach.

11/8/2019

A cold, windy and rainy day at the Bob Hall pier this morning.

It was a cold gray day today, and even though the roar of the waves hitting the beach woke me up this morning before dawn, I didn't even bother getting out of bed to watch the sun come up because I knew it was going to be totally overcast.

Later in the morning I walked over to the beach to take a few pictures but didn't stay very long. It was 55° but the 99.9% humidity made it feel like 25°, so between the light mist falling and the wind blowing so hard the red warning flags were having trouble clinging to their flagpoles I beat feet back to the Arctic Fox and called that five minute visit to the beach my accomplishment for the day.

I'm mentally juggling my various options on what I should do now that my stay at Padre island is rapidly coming to an end, and since I don't think much further ahead than a day or two my main concern at the moment is do I go, or do I stay? And I'm leaning towards staying for another week. I say this with some trepidation because there's a few days next week when it's supposed to be cold and rainy, which are not my favorite kind of days, but all in all I've rather enjoyed my stay here and more importantly, I just don't feel like leaving right now.

Sometimes I leave where I'm at because I feel like I want to be somewhere else, and sometimes I go somewhere else because I don't like where I am. But if I can't figure out somewhere I'd rather be than where I am, I've always found it best to not go anywhere else until I don't want to be where I am. So right now where I am is just as good a place as somewhere else, so maybe I should stay where I am until I want to be somewhere else.....Inless I change my mind and leave Sunday morning.

theboondork

heavy surf at Bob Hall pier Padre island Texas

the waves were hitting the pilings and splashing up onto the pier, there was only four or five truly dedicated fishermen on the pier this morning.

Cold and dreary, not a good way for a beach to be.

Hardly anyone at the beach today, it's just too cold.

4 Comments

Darrell

11/8/2019 07:45:57 pm

There's a nice state park not far from you that is located right on Aransas Bay. It's Goose Island State Park. It may be a nice change for you but still on the water. Just a thought.

Tom

11/9/2019 05:09:50 am

Thanks for that suggestion Darrell, but yesterday afternoon, before I got your suggestion for Goose Island, I had gone to the office and re-upped for another week here at Padre Balli campground.

I hope I'm not sorry I did that because every time I look at the local weather forecast they've added another day of rain to next week's prediction. But that's not entirely bad for me because clouds make better pictures.

It looks like I've lost some of my Southern, good ole boy survival skills because this humidity is killing me. Even though the temperatures are in the low 80s high 70s and I have the air conditioner running, I'm still sweating like a pig just sitting here doing nothing.

And the mosquitoes!! I've always been a mosquito magnet, I have that sweet blood, and now that I'm geezerly I can't even reach all the places they can bite me. I don't believe I could live like this, I think I've become hooked on the desert, you could say I've got sand in my blood, and it ain't beach sand.

Tom

Barney Ward link

11/9/2019 09:30:25 am

Just so folks will know. Goose Island State Park waterfront campsites were all destroyed by Hurricane Harvey. The concrete gazebos made it through the hurricane OK but the rest of the campsite stuff is destroyed including the road to them. I went there yesterday and they are finally starting to work on the utilities replacement for the campsites at the waterfront. The long pier is not even being cleaned up yet. The campsites back in the woods are all up and running just fine . The down side is the mosquito crop came through in great shape and is thriving.

11/9/2019 10:09:18 am

Thanks for that information Barney, the mere mention of the word mosquito makes me start scratching all over. I would love to go over to Bird Island basin in PINs and boondock for a few days just so I could get some nice sunset pictures over the Laguna Madre, but the last time I was there just when it was time to start taking sunset pictures the mosquitoes came out and forced me back into the truck.

I think the only reason they're not driving me crazy here is the winds are usually so high the mosquitoes are having trouble getting around.

Tom

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