Tuesday, January 11 2022
Planned time (google) 3:52
Actual time: 4:36
Stops: one quick pee break, and then one fill-up/dog walk that took 15 minutes
Stillhouse hollow campground
Left Stillhouse hollow and drove down to Matagorda Bay. We made good time and it wasn't a bad drive at all, but still seemed long. I counted hawks along the way:
Red-tail hawk 3
Osprey 2
Bald Eagle 1
Kestrel 2
Unknown but probably red-tails 8
And there we met our friends, Bob and T, and made new friends with their old neighbors from Allen/Fairview--the DiMillos. Great people.
We've been to Matagorda Bay "Nature Park" before and liked it, so I recommended it when Bob and I were planning this trip and couldn't find a good place to camp at Baffin Bay, which is farther south, I think. The Nature Park is really just an RV park, but it's right on the Colorado River where it flows into the gulf. The sites are closer together than the average state park sites, but still it seems roomy. And clean, and pleasant all around. It's managed by the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA) and based on two observances, they do a great job.
The ocean at Matagorda bay, of course
Bob put a line out in the water at the campsite and left it there, and later in the evening when he went to bring it in, there was a huge fish on it! A Redfish, more than 25 inches so he'd need ot use the tag from his Texas Fishing license on it. Apparently you're only allowed to keep one 25" redfish per season. He pondered for a while about whether to throw it back--where it would certainly die because it had swallowed a treble hook--or to clean it. The problem was that he had already caught a redfish...but I don't understand the detail. In any event, he finally decided it was legal and later confirmed that fact.
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