Wednesday January 16, 2008

One more picture from Bay St. Louis. This is all that is left of the church on this site. The congregation meets in the Quonset hut at the side.

We decided this morning to go back to Padre Island to check out what shells the tide had brought up after the storm we had yesterday and last night (we got an inch of rain). We got to the visitor center and found that the beach had disappeared! We hope that all of the cars who were parked along the beach further down got out in time as there was just a narrow strip of beach on which to walk. There also were no shells - they had all been sucked out to sea! We then got back into the car and headed for Del Rio - talking smaller roads. We had asked a number of people yesterday if they had been here, but no one had. We had read that there were caves with ancient pictographs and we thought it might be interesting to see them. We went through ranch lands and much drier country as we got away from the coast - many mesquite trees and large prickly pear cacti. We got here around 4 and make sure that the Internet worked before we settled into the room! We will check out the dinner options soon, but I wanted to get caught up on the blog first. It is warmer here, 70 degrees, sunny and the sun is just going down now at 6 PM. We will check out the caves tomorrow.