Mammoth Meanders to Goose (Is)Land, Day 2

Wednesday 11/30

Lockhart State Park to Goose Island State Park

First, farewell to our Fairway View Loop:

 

I think we kind of dawdled although it didn't feel like it.  We left at about 10:30, had a fairly normal fill-up stop at the Love's in Edna, then cruised on down to the bay. Not the ocean, I must admit, but the bay-slash-intercoastal waterway between Rockport-Fulton and the mainland.

It was a pretty uneventful drive and afterward, little happened. We simply arrived, set up, hung around a little, took Molly on a nice long walk. And then we went to eat.

Wow! The Wild Prawn in Rockport. Really good. We started the meal with Tuna Tartare

 After which Ed had prawns in chili sauce and dirty rice for a side;

 I had Mahi Mahi in an Asian ginger sauce with green beans.  The only things that were not exceptionally good were the salads--although they were made from fairly decent microgreens like you get in the prepared salad aisle of the grocery story, they were drenched in dressing. The restaurant only had two dressing options, both homemade. Ed liked his buttermilk-Parmesan dressing but I didn't care for mine, and the quantity of it that they applied destroyed my enjoyment of the lettuce. The other not great note was that my Mahi, which came "topped with shrimp" was not what I pictured.  I thought it would be a sprinkling of tiny shrimp cooked in the sauce, but instead it was simply topped with a pair of skewered, grilled shrimp that were overcooked and dry.  Too bad. 

Unfortunately, after going to bed with the air conditioner on, we woke up freezing with the heat on.  Ed had the good sense to put seven degrees of separation between the A/C setpoint and the heat. But that meant the heat wasn't warm enough to do more than take the chill off the air.

Outside it got down to about 44 degrees, and with a strong and gusty North wind, we felt every degree of it.

Birds seen: laughing gull, white pelican, brown pelican, common grackle