The Turner Family

It was listed on eBay out of nearby Charlotte , so we emailed to see if we could inspect it. We bluebooked it on our drive over and found it was worth more than the guy wanted to get out of it. It's got a little tear in the canvas on the rear driver's side slideout, it doesn't have an awning, and it's missing a grease cap on the port wheel, but it meets our layout and feature criteria in every other way, and it has a bonus air conditioner. The owner ran to the store to have the LP tanks filled so we could check out the furnace, which was also considerate.

As is our usual habit, we moved from South Padre Island to Port Aransas, a move of about 150 miles up the coast. Port Aransas is also on a long narrow barrier island. The town itself occupies the northmost one mile of Mustang Island, and is about the size of Grand Ledge. We continue our world class loafing, in this case at the side of the outlet from Corpus Christi harbor to the Gulf of Mexico. It's a relatvely busy harbor, so some days large ocean going ships come by, two or three per hour. We read books, watch the ships and chat with the people who are fishing. The photos show a ship carrying some off shore drilling equipment. There is quite a bit of off shore oil work in this area of Texas, and consequently a lot of ship traffic related to that industry. For scale, the white yacht in that photo is probably about 30 to 40 feet long. Another photo is a of a local fishing boat that had sunk and was salvaged. In the opinion of the local old geezers it had been underwater for ab