The campers - from Troop 583 and Crew 583
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topo of the camp - see Lat. - Lon.
The north gate
Setting up camp in the wind shadow of the brush off the East side of the pond.
The Scouts got down to fishing as soon as the tents were up.
The first shade - a silvertarp - gives very positive shade.
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fishing left aside - stir fry for lunch - the lazy adults just made sandwiches
From about three-thirty through five-thirty in the afternoon it was insufferably hot.
The wind, usually brisk from the SE went light, even quit, and puffed from the NNE, quit and we cooked.
The normal S. Texas summer wind failed, over time very high thin overcast softened shadows but did little
to cool.
We all did what all sensible people in hot climates do, we had siesta, many with wet paper towels on their foreheads.
One of a group of wild turkeys who walked through the camp to have a drink at the pond.
Turkey tracks and others - perhaps cat
More tracks at waterside - possibly bobcat among them - a racoon was seen at night
More tracks
Small grasshopper about an inch long - also had katydids
black beetle, a little less than an inch long
a new butterfly
red catapillers, about an inch and a half long, must be bad tasting, maybe poisonus.
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Jose G. our Scoutmaster emeritis caught this bass, the big one - and - The Scoutmaster re-lived his childhood by catching this one.
Much like the bluegills caught in Wisconsin.
Both were released and swam away.
A pigmy owl. Bob S. who arranged our visit to the ranch can make a low whistle to call these birds.
a calm morning - looking south across the pond
The youth have breakfast, the tents are packed.
We leave soon after, as the wind shifts out of the north, and the day warms up.
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