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Saturday, January 30, 2010

Parker Memorial Park

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John and I were driving around Flour Bluff and came across Parker Memorial Park.  In addition to the pool, tennis courts, Senior Center, and...
Saturday, October 03, 2009

Memorial Park, Rockport, Tx

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We went to Rockport today. We stopped at Memorial Park. There were many small children playing soccer. The park has about two miles of walki...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

South Bluff Park

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We stopped off at South Bluff Park after Blucher Park.  There are some very impressive brick and stone entrance and sidewalks in the park.  ...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009

Blucher Park

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I saw on the news that the city had spent over 85 thousand dollars to renovate Blucher Park. We found the park but drove around trying to f...
Saturday, July 25, 2009

Norma Urban Park

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We first visited here November 3, 2007. I took photograph of sign. I called it Marina. Since then the area has been named for Norma Urba...

Sherrill Park

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We rented a bicycle surrey and rode up and down sidewalk along the bayfront. I jumped out and went across the street to take photo of sign....
Saturday, June 13, 2009

Candlewood Park

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We spotted this park as we were driving down Williams Drive over in Corpus Christi. It is fairly large and has a lot of area to walk and fi...
Saturday, May 30, 2009

Ropes

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There are a series of small parks along Ocean Drive and Shoreline in Corpus Christi. Ropes is one of those. The beach access isn't very ...
Saturday, May 02, 2009

H E Butt Park

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We went to Corpus to go shopping etc. We checked out HEB Park. There were many people playing at the Tennis Center. I'm not sure if a to...
Saturday, April 04, 2009

Collier Park

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We were driving over to find Hamlin Pharmacy. We missed the turn and was doubling back when we found this park. The pool was opened and be...

Hans and Pat Suter Wildlife Refuge

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This is another park that it mentioned in Birding Corpus Christi book. The book warns that the park is prone to break ins. There are nume...
Friday, March 27, 2009

Paris

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My niece Kristi went to Paris.
Friday, March 20, 2009

West Guth

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In honor of the first day of spring, we went to West Guth park in Corpus Christi, which is located just off of I-37 between Carbon Plant Ro...
Saturday, March 07, 2009

Lake Findley

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For our 12 th anniversary we decided to drive over to Alice, Texas and see the sights. My bird watching book suggested we check out Lake ...
Saturday, January 24, 2009

City Beach

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We drove over to the beach. The sign said the sand conditions were poor so we did not want to drive very far on the beach. Because it was s...

Community Park

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We drove over to Port Aransas to visit some of the parks. The first one we stopped at was the Community Park. There is a 1.1 mile walking...

Paradise Pond

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This is the last park we visited before leaving Port Aransas. It is very difficult to find. There aren't any signs on the street. It is...
Saturday, December 27, 2008

Indian Point

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Indian Point Park and Sunset Lake park are connected together. We parked at Sunset Lake and walked over to Indian Point Park. Creepy bit ...

Sunset Lake Park

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We drove over to Portland for the day. Sunset Lake park has a jogging and bike trail along the shoreline. We saw four pink spoonbills. T...
Thursday, December 25, 2008

Bentsen Rio Grande State Park

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We drove to the valley today to visit this park. It is a good place to bird watch. We saw lots of birds. The best was seeing three javel...
Saturday, December 13, 2008

St. Andrews

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We were looking for a short cut thru a back street over in Corpus and came across this park. There is a playground with toys. One looks l...
Sunday, July 13, 2008

Labonte Park

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The park is located in Nueces county. It is along the river. We walked down to the dam. It is an area that keeps the salt water from the...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Doddridge Park

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The park is along Ocean Drive/Shoreline in Corpus Christi. It is a great place to just sit and feel the breeze and look out at the water.
Sunday, March 02, 2008

Flato Park

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The park is located in Kleberg county. It has a covered picnic area, a playground, and basketball court. I also found a homemade pipe hid...
Friday, February 22, 2008

Hazel Bazemore Park

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The park is located in Nueces county. It has several places for bird watching. There are a series of trails. It has many picnic tables that ...
Sunday, November 04, 2007

Dick Kleberg Park

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We saw several types of birds in the park. Even saw a cardinal, John's clan animal. We walked on the path by the water and noticed a s...
Saturday, November 03, 2007

Marina

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We walked around on the T Head and thought we would ride on the boat but were told that they only go out if there are 30 passengers. The l...

Selena

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We also saw Selena. I thought her statue was in the middle of the street. So I was surprised to see her on the T head.

"The Nina"

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We walked around on the T heads and spotted a ship from Columbus' fleet. John was ready to stage a protest, but we had other things t...

Artesian Park

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Another small park in Corpus Christi. It located across the street from the newspaper. John could hear the presses running.

Cole Park

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Saturday we visited Corpus Christi and drove along the bayfront. Cole Park has an elaborate wooden structure for the kids to play on. It la...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Amistad Park

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We went again over to Bishop to check out another small park. This one has a walking trail around the perimeter. There is a field with one...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

Bishop City Park

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We decided to check out the parks over in Bishop. This one is on Business 77. It is quite nice for a small town. There are baseball, and ba...
Sunday, October 07, 2007

Los Hermanos Flores Park

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We have moved to Kingsville. There are fewer parks in Kleberg county and will not take too long to visit them all. This park has a basketb...

Kenedy Park

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This is a small park on the corner of Kenedy and 14th. It needed to have someone come and mow it. The grass was very high. The landscaping n...

Thompson Park

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The last of the three parks we visited on Sunday. We didn't wander around because of the number of people. I just took picture and le...
Monday, October 01, 2007

The Cabin

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The family has relocated to south Texas. Here is a picture of the rustic garage apartment I'm living in for awhile. I didn't get ...
Tuesday, September 04, 2007

Collins Park

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We stopped by at this park just to take the photo. It is just down the street from mom's new apartment. It has many toys on the playgr...
Sunday, July 29, 2007

HEB Kid Fit Park

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This is a new exercise area in Nottingham park. There are several sizes of equipment for young kids and adults. There is a small climbing ...
Sunday, July 22, 2007

Fry Road Park

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We were on our way back home and I noticed this park on the Key Map. the park is near Saums and Fry. It is a very nice park. There is a ...

Katy City Park

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This park is next to Mary Jo Peckham park. You can see John in the background over by the restrooms. The park is ok but Peckham park is mu...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

Bill Archer dog park

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We decided to check out this new dog park. We did not bring Zip with us. It has been too rainy. There was so much water/puddles we could not...
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Friday, July 06, 2007

Bigfoot Post Office

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Stopped off at Bigfoot on the way to Pearsall. There was a small park across the street but didn't see a sign.
Sunday, June 10, 2007

Southdown Park

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We drove over to Pearland today and visited Southdown Park. I want to call it Sundown park. It has a Water Splash park but currently it ...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

Dow Elementary

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The school in the background is being renovated. It looks like it will be made into townhouses/loft apartments. I don't imagine this p...
Saturday, March 03, 2007

Tony Marron Park

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The last park of the day. We just came upon it without planning to visit. There is a trail running along the bayou. We did not walk on it ...

Fox Park

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John was parked in the street and I hurriedly took the picture. This park is just a small grassy space. It is barely larger than the sign....

Eastwood Park

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A small park that I just took a picture of the sign.

John T. Mason Park

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Park of the month for March The park is over 100 acres and is divided into three areas. We did not visit the part across 75th street. A l...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

Wright Bembry Park

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The last park we visited today. It is a very small one (pocket park size). This neighborhood is rapidly changing. On one side of the park wa...
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