A New Caddy...

No, I wasn't on Let's Make A Deal... but, my Honey did get me a new caddy.  A hose caddy.  And two new "never kink" fresh water hoses to put in it, for the motorhome.

It's Friday.  No TGIF feeling here, other than: no house chores today.  We made a trip to the grocery store this morning, to make sure we have stuff to last through the weekend... we are seeing heavier traffic these days on the weekends - people heading to the beach.

Another breezy day, but heading out on the boat...

The wind is blowing a solid 18, gusting to the mid-20s.  Heading down the Port Isabel Channel towards the Brownsville Ship Channel, we are going right into the wind.  I keep our speed at a comfortable 4.5 knots, no spray.  Joan got out the lunch she made for us.  I took the boat along the south side of the ship channel to get some protection from the wind...

We were on the lookout for dolphins - saw one in the ship channel, but it disappeared after two surfacings.  No photos.  I turned us back in towards the PI Channel, putting the wind behind us... better: our potato chips weren't trying to blow away.  ;-)  We saw two more dolphins behind us - I rotated, and they disappeared.  Looks like this will be a no-dolphin-photos kind of day.

The birds were hunkered down...

You know it is windy when the birds aren't flying.  See if you can find the birds in the scrub brush...

We weren't ready to head home, so we decided to take a look around the former shrimp basin.  On the way to that, we passed this small bait shrimper...

This boatyard is South Point Marina...

Some of those boats on the hard have been there for years; at one time, they were someone's dream... now, neglected.

Turning into the shrimp basin channel...

There are a few shrimpboats in.  In better days, the shrimpboats would be stacked 3 deep, unloading their catch.  The fleet is a fraction of what it used to be.  Here's one boat that has seen better days...

On one side of the channel...

And just opposite from that...

Kinda hard to sell luxury waterfront home lots when the view across the channel is dilapidated.

This shrimper has fresh paint...

Haven't seen one painted dark gray before.

Not far to get home for us, and then...

Yep, a couple dolphins right before we turned into the canal.

Running into the wind, up the canal, there were a few birds along the shore on the outer canal...

The wind was coming right down our canal.  We rotated at our dock - it was easy to stop, since the front of the boat was right into the wind.  We tied off - home.  Joan took our stuff from the boat up to the house while I hosed the boat and put it away.  She and Izzy were waiting for me on the deck when I was done...

Windy, but still a pleasant day (88º) in the Tropical Tip.