Friday, January 7, 2011

Brazos Bend

After Christmas the weather turned colder but we still had several days off and it was warmer in the south. We headed to Brazos Bend State Park for our first time. While it was still coll here it was 7 degree's warmer than home. This park has 35 miles of trails that are flat and have a good surface like the one pictured above,it also has good roads in the park you can cycle on.
We did a lot of hiking and riding the bikes, some areas had meadows with the tree's draped in Spanish moss and numerous deer that were skittish.
Some of the tree's in this 5000 acre park are ancient with battle scars like this one, we had a great RV site and enjoyed this trip a lot. Not a lot to post about on this trip we just hiked, biked and ate around the campfire for three days.
Yesterday afternoon I met Bobby at the lake and we had a nice 4 hour sail, we had relocated blocks for the jib sheets to allow a closer trim and change the shape of the 100% jib and it worked great. A member of his yacht club with the same model of boat came out of the Marina and contacted us and we had a little competition, we sailed well and walked away to windward.
Tomorrow we will try to get in a nice ride on the Tandem before the weather turns cold for the next week, real cold for this area.



No comments: