November 19, 2008

rockport-pelicans, big tree

Nov 19-23
Ches and I enjoyed seeing dolphins swimming in the channel when we went for a ferry ride. I also enjoyed watching some pelicans swimming, they would all swim in a line then they would stop and go in a circle and all dive in and try to get some fish. I was fascinated watching hundreds of ants marching in a row each carrying a leaf or blade of grass. I followed them for about 200 hundred feet (a very long distance for a tiny ant) and then they would take their leaf down the hole and go back for another (at least I think it was the same ants after all they all look the same).



Drilling
they were drilling for gas at the RV Park. they work 24 hours day. they moved it to another site in the park while we were there and it only took them one day to take down and move the equipment from one site and set it up on another. We talked to the manager of the project who is in his seventies and has worked all over the world.


The rig set up and drilling

This is after finished drilling


This is setting up at another site


Big tree

The tree is over 1000 years old and is 35 feet around the trunk. The town is very proud of it and has almost made it into a monument




Christmas tree
they decorated a tree in the park


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