Thursday, 27 November 2014

Wednesday, November 26 – Galveston Island

Today was a “nothing planned” day.  Diane did some stuff around the Ti and then we headed out to the local grocery store for food and fuel.  Yup, lots of grocery stores also sell fuel in the U.S.  We went to Kroger’s and paid the lowest price yet for Diesel, $3.24 per gallon, oh ya!!

We also picked up some human fuel inside the store.  This store is fairly new and very nice inside.  It was just before 11:00 AM and the store was starting to fill up (American Thanksgiving tomorrow), although the checkouts were not too busy by the time we were finished.

Galveston Island Along the Beach
Back to the Ti and lunch then out for a walk on the beach.  It does seem to be breezy here much of the time.  That is nice as it keeps the bugs down and milder temperatures in the hot weather, but it is miserable when it comes to hearing aids, constant wind noise over a microphone with a small speaker stuck in your ear, ugh!!  Oh well still better than snow J.

Another thing we have noticed is the amount of shipping traffic you see in the bay.  During the day you can see many ships moving in and out.  During the evening and night it is like another city out there because of all the lights from these ships – really neat!!
 
Later in the afternoon we took a walk with cameras and tripods in hand to take pictures of the sun going down behind the carnival on a pier a couple of miles from here.

The sunset pictures did not work out as it set behind the city as opposed to the carnival.  But as it got darker the carnival lights came on and gave us some interesting shots. I also tried some shots of the ¼ moon.


It was time to walk back in the dark (yes, we brought a flashlight which helped).  It was about a mile walk and was very peaceful, except for the wind, which was now at our backs.  Time to review the pictures and find that I have some dirt somewhere in the camera that must be cleaned out - $&@^%!! Note to self: always, always check the camera with a test picture before going out!



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