Slept with window open and blinds up at the end of the bed. Woke up just as daylight was coming around and dozed off and on while watching the animal kingdom wake up. Many birds chirping. Saw an Axis deer wander through my campsite. Finally got up an hour or so later and made coffee. While sitting outside at the picnic table enjoying the peace, a tom turkey wandered through the campsite. Seriously debated staying put one more day but with the holiday weekend coming, for traffic reasons on the highway, I think I’ll move on.
The next stretch is a long one and I’m going to take I-10. Drive was pretty boring and uneventful. Just long. Temperature rose to 95 degrees and trees shrunk to a max height of maybe 10 feet. Humidity is at 6%. This is the Texas from the westerns. Dry, hot dusty and rugged. Forbidding mountains. Makes me think I should have stayed at South Llano another day…
The park was created around a large natural spring which a swimming pool was constructed around many years ago. There are irrigation canals leading away and a manmade wetland has been created to emulate one that was destroyed here when the pool was built. As the sun set, the temperature dropped quickly and the desert creatures came out. Around the wetland it was almost deafening with the sound of insects and birds. A rabbit wandered by our trailer just as dark was falling.
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