Monday, December 16, 2024

Magnus Goes Beaching

 Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Started off our big beach trip at Jim Hogg COE Campground on Lake Georgetown.  It was a typical COE park, reminding me very much of the ones around Belton Lake.  The roads getting there were bad and had lots of deer. The lake edge was very bare and the grass was mowed way too short; the trees were small, red or ashe juniper and small-leaved oaks.

The campsites were huge, with long gravel driveways and roofed structures over chunky picnic tables.  And I liked it, other than the bareness and the lack of bird life.  The lake wasn't all that low, either.  It held a pied-billed grebe and a few coots and that's about all.

 

I think if they left more trees and planted more bushes and native plants and didn't cut the grass nearly so short around the campground, there'd be more birds.

After hooking up, there was just time for a quick Molly walk in and around the campground.  It had a trail, but we didn't make it that far.  And then Ed and I hopped in the Jeep and went to get carryout sushi from Miso Sushi. It was good, but I think next time we're here we should try somewhere else.  There are several restaurants in the area. The sushi was good, and the soup okay, but the salad they put in the order was just icky and the noodle dish not very good at all.  

It rained on Molly and me during our evening walk--not hard, but not a light mist either.  Then it rained off and on all night.

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