April 9th

Sorry to have been out of touch! Unfortunately not every campsite has wi fi or even bathrooms for that matter!
We are now in a very cute touristy town called Rockport, Texas. Not far from the ocean, no beach but apparently there's lots of fishing here!
 The Texas info centre has tons of info and the girl there drew Rob a map showing the scenic off the trail route to Corpus Christi. We even had a creepy moment there when a young man approached Rob for change saying him and his wife had just come from New Orleans, ran out of gas and his debit card wouldn't work. Rob gave him some change and when I joined them he quickly left! Then he totally disappeared! I had Rob check the camper, even the biffy, just in case! Too many murder mysteries! I even looked for him around the parking lot to see if he had approached anyone else but he had totally vanished.... creeepy!
So we headed onto a place called Crystal Beach and acccording to the brochure a great camp ground "within walking distance" to the beach. Well! They should be reported to the Better Business Bureau.... I should have taken pictures! We felt like were were in a parking lot and there were no bathrooms! We could walk to the ocean.... about a km.. The woman in charge told us we could eat across the road at this bar. Lots of vehicles... no windows....people smoking inside... dark.... no food!
Needless to say we left at the crack of dawn! Crossed onto Galveston Island via a free ferry and within and hour or so were sitting on this gorgeous sand beach at a state park! It was just lovely! unfortunately didn't realize how powerful the sun was.... got a little lobstery! But it was worth it! Miles and miles of sand beaches and the ocean.Daisy is a little intiminated by the waves but enjoyed chasing these black brazen birds that are a lot like our crows only have a better call. You can't leave anything that might be edible. The homes all along the shoreline are up on stilts but very colourful. I will post some pictures of them later. They reminded me of Victoria. I wished we could have stayed longer but the park was booked solid for this weekend as there is going to be a bike race. One thing about Texas, so far, it's flatter than piss on a platter! Wow!
So I'm doing laundry and then I think we are going as far as Corpus Christi then start heading north towards San Antonio to pick up Hwy 10. We still have so much to see! Can't believe we've been on the road for 2 weeks already and the sights we've already seen!