This morning was bright and sunny, though cold. We headed north through Port Aransas. There is a ferry system that connects the Island to the mainland. They must have about 6 small ferries that can hold “ as many as they can get on” and they shuttle cars back and forth all day. It is the distance of a wide freeway, and then there is a large bridge over the canal. Why no bridge, we couldn’t guess. 
And is this an old BC ferry ??? Now one of the few gambling facilities in Texas.First we went to Goose Island State Park, where there are camp sites with hookups right on the island on the beach, or sites hidden in the trees on the mainland. And a long fishing pier.
Then on Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. These are always great. We saw all kinds of birds, and we think we may have seen the Whooping Crane ( this is its winter home ). We also saw deer and feral pigs. Photographing birds and animals is really hard as they don’t stay still, and most often run into the bushes. The alligators had gone into their winter holes ( too cold for them now).
Did I tell you that south Texas is flat, I mean really flat. And low, really low. Should a 20 ft wave come, south Texas would disappear. With global warming, they should be really worried.
At home, we have sea gulls, and starlings in plowed fields. Here they have cranes - hundreds of them.
