| Admiralty RV park at San Antonio was a high quality park with
customers to match. This is a Prevost, and a fairly modern one. $1.3 million
new or about $7,000 a month. How the other half live. There were two on the
site. |  |
 | Almost as
expensive was this rare Freightliner with a paint job. This certainly turned
eyes but was a bit too big for easy maneuverability. |
| More traditional was this icon of American style, the Airstream
caravan. They still make these very distinctive vehicles. |  |
 | There isn't much
in the 150 miles between San Antonio and Corpus Christi. Mainly flat desert
scrub although it got greener as we went south. North Corpus Christi had
several oil refineries like this one. |
| We also spotted this church, unusual in that most churches down
here are flat single storey buildings. This was almost Moorish in style. |  |
 | From the RV site
to Padre Island is only a few miles. It is one of a number of very long
sandbars which protect the coast. These are on the next island north called
Mustang Island. It just goes for miles. |  |
| I had avoided the interstates and the railways when selecting a
campground, but I missed the Naval Air Station/Coastal Command. We were
almost at the end of the runway and they restarted ops after the New Year
holiday. I think there was a lot of primary training because these were
doing circuits and bumps all day. These are T34 - 'Mentor' trainers. |  |
 | There were also a
lot of two engine training flights too. These are T-44A 'Pegasus' King Air
and are used for training on Instrument Landing. |  |
| This is an HC-25 'Falcon' turbofan jet US Coastguard patrol
aircraft made by Dassault. They are also used by the French airforce. It was the only jet we saw all day. |  |
 | Most of the time
the sky was very misty in the morning and quite cool, and then sunny in the
afternoon and quite warm. Clouds at dusk help with the sunsets although not
much in this case. The flights carried on into the evening....
We stayed until January 5th. |
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