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| Just north of Port Aransas where we
departed is the Lydia Ann lighthouse which was owned by a famous local
millionaire but is now a state park. |
Captain Marvin was playing with the Dolphins. He
had gotten the speed just right so they were surfing in his wake.
There were Dolphins everywhere. I hadn't realized they were so
common. |
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| Here is John in his element. He loves
to be on big boats. |
Good shot of John. |
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| Captain Marvin was going about 17 Knots and
the Dolphins were in front of the boat keeping up...... |
...... and once in awhile they would jump out of the
water. We were about 5 feet above them. |
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| Since this was a birding tour we stopped a
lot for the birds. This is a Cara-Cara or Mexican eagle. These
are big compared to the Osprey fish eagles we normally see. He was
about 200 feet away and this shot was blown up a lot. |
Two Peregrine hawks, the fastest animals in the world
when they are in a dive heading towards their prey. |
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| Well last year there 219 of these in the
world and now there are only 217. This Whooping Crane was about 150
feet away. You can see the stork-like black beak and the black part
of the head. |
These were 25 feet away in the Intercoastal Waterway
with us. Two mature adults and one baby. |
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| By the way these guys look beautiful in
flight. |
And there were barges. This tug is pushing two
barges side by side. Actually it might have been 4 barges as they
ended being about 300 feet long. He was taking up almost the whole
width of the channel, but Captain Marvin did manage to get by. |
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| Two barges one in front of the other. |
A powerful tug. |