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Still more from Port O’Connor, Texas

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While we’ve been truckless we’ve been fishing, eating lots of crawfish and Dave went shrimping. Here’s some of those pics and some from around POC. Check out the BLOG!

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April 26 was not one of our more exciting fishing days

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April 30 (My Bday) was a beautiful, warm and CALM fishing day….perfect!

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What made it even better was the catching that day. We caught 2 fish each and these are our big ones. Dave’s is a 25” trout, mine is a 24” redfish.

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To top off a great day, the owners of the RV park we’re staying at had decided to have a crawfish boil that night.

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Nice of them to cook me a Birthday dinner

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Yup that’s a cow……Texas lawnmower???

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We volunteered to help set up the tables and chairs at the first annual Crawfishfest in town. They’re hoping 300-400 people attend.

When we came back at noon, the place was packed. We’re guessing that there were close to 1,000 people here.

They had about 10 entrants in the crawfish cooking contest and each of these groups handed out good size samples for everyone to try. For those of us who love crawfish, this was heaven.

In addition to the samples, a vendor from New Orleans was also selling 3lb plates of crawfish & corn & potatoes for $20/each. Volunteers got the meal for free and as you can see, it’s a lot of crawfish!

What a great idea…Winery on Wheels! Very popular vendor, especially after they ran out of beer at 2pm. 57 Cases of beer wasn’t nearly enough for thirsty, crawfish eatin’ Texans!

If you didn’t like crawfish you could get some other cajun BBQ delites from the Pink Flamingeaux.

Oh yeah, some how Dave got volunteered to be a judge in the wildcard category…that’s tasting a variety of different dishes with crawfish as the main ingredient. This looks like some sort of gumbo.

He got to rub elbows with the local sheriff

It was a gorgeous day, lots of people came to check it out.

View of the ocean front location. Proceeds from the fest are going to be used to build a big beach front pavilion here. Apparently they made about $10,000, pretty darn good!

Of course there was a crawfish eating contest….they had to get all the meat out of the tail and suck the head (yuck!)

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Not sure what these flowers are but they’re all around town right now

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Some local goats….lots of scrub to eat here

The RV park bunny

Momma duck and her 11 babies on May 4….unfortunately only 5 have survived as of May 16. They’ve been the only ones lucky enough to avoid seagulls, turtles, catfish and possums.

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The RV park owners also own this shrimp boat. Recently painted and cleaned, it won’t look this good for long. Sun, salt and water quickly take toll.

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On May 10th, very early in the morning (he left at 4:15am) Dave went shrimping with Doug. Where the shrimp boats go, so do the 100s of birds.

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Bringing up the catch

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The birds help themselves to breakfast

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Looks like a decent catch but it’s not nearly as big as Doug was hoping for

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Unfortunately it’s not all shrimp…there’s lots of skinny little ribbon fish which have to be sorted out. Normally he keeps them for bait but they’re too small for that.

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Another fishing but no catching day. Just watching the barges go by

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A big crane on a little barge goes out to an oil rig in the ocean.

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They’re building this sand sculpture at the Port O’Connor community centre as part of the Wounded Warriors celebration here on May 18

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Impressive isn’t it? I’ll have more pictures of the completed sculpture and the even early next week.

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Two of the many “love bugs” that seem to be everywhere here right now. No idea what they’re technically called but there’s always 2 together, thus the name :-)

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Dave and our mechanic Roy discuss the truck…it was kinda shocking for me to see it like this, I sure hope it all gets put back together properly and SECURELY!!!!

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The problem motor, only $17,000 to replace….sigh….

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We had to figure out a way to go fishing without the truck, this is the solution. The ocean was a 10 minute bike ride from the RV park.

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This is the only fish I’ve caught in the past couple of weeks…a GIANT black drum. Where have all the big ones gone?

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