Medina Lake

We left the Rockport area Saturday and drove the 200 miles north to the Thousand Trails park at Medina Lake.  Our thought was to be able to get a little fishing in.



This is the result of the drought in Texas.  It is so sad.  In the bottom corner you can see the fishing dock.  So there will be no fishing here.  However, we do have a lot of deer roaming around.



They certainly have no fear.  This is what Thousand Trails calls a preserve so these deer know that they are safe from any type of hunters.  The downside is you have to be very careful where you walk!!!

USS Lexington

We finally got to Corpus Christi to see the USS Lexington.  After circling the area several times (a lot of ‘one way’ streets) we found the parking lot. There is street parking but they all had parking meters and we knew we were going to be there a while.




We started the self-guided tour at a leisurely pace.  The flight deck was one of our favorite stations.
 
                                            


The tour is divided into 5 sections. we read more info in some areas than others. We spent a lot of time in the area set aside to remember Pearl Harbor.  It was one of the best displays we had ever seen.   They even had a huge model of the area, showing where each ship was prior to the attack.  

The ship is named in honor of the Revolutionary War Battle of Lexington. It was originally to have been named Cabot, but she was renamed while under construction to commemorate USS Lexington (CV-2), lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. Tokyo Rose gave the ship the nickname “The Blue Ghost” because it was painted a dark blue. The “ghost” portion of the nickname came from the fact that they thought they had sunk the Lexington four times during the course of the war.
“She sinks beneath the deep blue seas each evening, all hands aboard, only to re-appear each morning on the horizon.”


We leave the Rockport area tomorrow and are heading up to Medina Lake.  Hopefully our internet and phone signal will be a lot better than it is here.

Fishing

Ed doesn’t get to fish very much.  So after buying a license and bait, off we went to a local fishing pier here in Rockport.



Copano Fishing Pier is the old bridge.  You can see the actual bridge next to it.  This time of year there is the possibility of catching Sheepshead or Black Drum.  They said at night  under the lights you can try for Spotted Seatrout.  We were there for about 4 hours and the only thing biting were these tiny fish.



He finally started using them as bait.   I got a some pictures of the pelicans and seagulls.  They were all sitting at the end of the pier that has a fish cleaning station.  The people who have boats launch from this area and then come in a clean the fish they caught.  They throw the fish parts to them, so they all stick around this area.



It was a good day, a little overcast and breezy.  I sat and read my book while Ed fished.  We will probably go back again before we leave the area.  Maybe we will go at night and see what we can catch then.