Saturday, February 2, 2013

Saturday in Louisianna

We are on our third day at Sam Houston Jones State Park on the western edge of Louisiana. Planning on spending super bowl Sunday here then moving southwest to the Texas shore. The weather has been beautiful with blue skies and temperatures at around 60 in the day and 40 at night. The next few days are bringing warmer weather.
We are camped with the Wrights until we leave on Monday. They are headed northwest to San Antonio and we are headed southwest. We have had a great time with them and plan on exploring the area today. The day will take us to the town of Lake Charles and then down to the coast at Holly Beach. The Creole Nature Trail is a loop that goes through the Louisiana's outback and we don't know what to expect. From my reading I learned that this area has been devastated by Hurricanes Ike and Rita and that it is slowly recovering, but will never be rebuilt totally since the government has put tough restrictions on rebuilding along the coast.

We are also celebrating Nancy's birthday today as she has caught up to me in age. Hope everyone is well wherever they may be!

A pileated woodpecker was eating berries while hanging on the branches of a bush.

The Geico lizard was hanging around in the Laundry Building.

This looked like holly, but the leaves are different. Bright red berries stood out in the woods along the Orange Nature Trail at SHJ State Park.

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