Return to Jamaica Beach

We're moving across the Gulf Coast toward Betty's RV Park in Abbeville, Louisiana for the Mardi Gras season!  This was a short stop on Galveston Island in Texas, at one of our favorite RV parks - Jamaica Beach RV Resort.  As we crossed the bridge onto the island from the west, we wondered what kind of weather we would find:

It turned out that the forecast for our stay was for fog -- and a significant chance of rain.  So much for our bragging to daughter Katie that we would be walking on the beach in bare feet, shorts and t-shirts on a sunny day.

Nevertheless, we got up this morning optimistic over our chance to revisit one of our favorite campgrounds and take a long walk along the beach.  We started our coffee walk with a sighting of a local egret:

One thing we enjoy about this RV park is its social activities.  When we were here in 2014, we joined in a group outing to watch the Galveston Mardi Gras parade and taste BBQ smoked by our campground hosts.  This year, we're missing Mardi Gras, but we had a chance to check out the campground's float:

Since we were here in 2014, the campground has nearly doubled in size, extending toward Galveston Bay from its frontage on Termini-San Luis Pass Road next to the Gulf of Mexico beach.  We walked the path back toward the bay and found some interesting swings set out for guests to enjoy the quiet bay waters:

Our big goal for today was to walk on the beach, and we were able to get a 4-mile stroll.  It was foggy and colder than we would have liked, but we still enjoyed our first walk along a seashore since November when we visited the beach with Darla on our visit in Riverside California.

The locals are working hard to expand and protect the dunes along this stretch of Galveston Island.  Many of the dunes are covered with low bushes and grasses, and drainage channels seem to have found their way through the dunes without causing much damage to the sandy storm barriers:

It was almost lunchtime when we returned from the beach, and we wanted to check out at least one Galveston eatery we hadn't tried before.  We ended up picking Katie's Seafood Restaurant, on the bay side of Galveston.  After enjoying an all-seafood lunch, we hopped over to Katie's nearby seafood market, where we picked up some redfish and snapper to put away to cook for dinner in the coming days.

We got home, did some chores, and let Ruby and Baxter out for their daily afternoon sniffs.  We had bought a few types of gin to add to our collection for a planned gin-tasting at Betty's RV Park, and we had little tastes of what we purchased.  Now it's time to kick back, our chores done, anticipating a light dinner.

Ruby, however, is still busy.  As we speak, she is planning the route for our next move to Sea Rim State Park near Port Arthur, Texas.  Just now, she looked up to announce that it would be about a 3.5 hour drive, and she had found the optimum route.

That's our Ruby.