Almost time to leave Lake Texana again

There have been lots of improvements at Lake Texana. Best of all – we got about 3 feet of our water level back. Here is a picture of the cove that I had previously shown as completely dried up.

With the water our wildlife has come out to play (and eat the green foliage). Here is one of our larger bucks.

We have a new Nature Center and we saved some of the murals from the old center to put around a storage area and hide the wheels on the new center – I did the work. Here are some pictures of the murals at the new nature center.

The old nature center was torn down except for the porch which the Director hopes to keep as a porch for a rental cabin (our first). Here are the pictures of the old nature center’s demise, starting with a view showing the murals removed and ending up with the final demolition.

I did some of the work of decorating the new nature center – hanging the taxidermy next to the mural that is being done by the same artist that did the old center. He will return and fill out the mural to work in the taxidermy better. Here is the work in progress.

We also put in a bird viewing area and trail in the woods behind the center. I helped with blazing the trail and irrigating the pond and birdbath in the bird area.

Before I leave, next week, I hope to get the new information kiosks installed at the 4 host sites. Then I will be off on my October adventures – mostly RV rallies in Texas.

The other day I had one of those small world experiences. I was geocaching in Victoria and when I looked up from my computer, logging in a find in an RV park, there out the window was my good friend, Frank Williams. We spent over an hour sharing what we had been up to and agreed to meet again next week at Rainbow’s End in Livingston. I will even be staying on his lot there and we will go to at least one of the rallies together.

Well, I guess that’s all for this blog – I’ll share again in a couple of weeks.