Fontainebleau State Park Mandeville, LA

Night before last stayed at Sam Houston Jones State Park in western Louisiana.  At the moment we are staying at the Fontainebleau SP  which is on the northern shore of Lake  Pontchartrain, LA.  It is very hot with a high humidity, and our camper does not have air conditioning.  It is a beautiful campground and we road the bikes all over.  Would like to go swimming but signs say "High Bacteria, swimming not advised". 

                                           Moss on Cypress tree in swamp

                                           Found a sign but no gators

                                           This is not our camper but there is a story here.  Met the owners in Yosemite, and talked for an hour.  They are a nice couple from Maine,  and doing a circle of the country like us. They have a Shadow cruiser camper like us and met us by talking camper talk.   They are in their 70's  and have been traveling for a long time.   We seen them in New Mexico and Galveston Island and then again Monday night they camped near us.   We both have different agenda's,  so thought it a coincidence that we kept seeing each other.

                                           sunset over Lake Pontchartrain

                                           Now where is the switch to turn on the fountain

                                           Me with Lake Pontchartrain

Galveston Island State Park

Leaving Galveston Island SP today.  It is very hot and quite windy.  Had a little rain late last night.  Yesterday we walked about 3 miles up and down the beach, but no pics as there was too much sand and salt air blowing.  Beautiful beach.  The park reopened last year after having been distroyed by Hurricane Ike in 2008.  There are 2 areas to camp, out by the beach or back by the bay.  We are back by the bay.  When the tide came in it was about 15 feet from our camper.  This morning we have been watching the Pelicans dive for fish and watching other birds.   There is also a lot of kayakers here.

                                            Hurricane Ike damage at State Park

                                           our campsite

                                           view looking out our back door

                                           Pelicans diving

                                           Fisherman seen out back door

Stephen F. Austin State Park, Close to Houston, TX

Last night we ended up at Triple R RV park outside of Crystal City, TX.  We got the last site.  It is a beautiful park, the only problem we were parked under a pecan tree and all night long pecans kept falling off the tree and hitting our roof.  It made for hard sleeping.  Before in the afternoon we hit the Judge Roy Bean museum in Langtry, TX.  Today we made it almost to Houston.   We are at the Stephen F. Austin SP.  Due to the weather (It is extremly hot)  we didn't head for South Texas.  This afternoon  took a bike over the many trails at the park.  Seen 3 armadillo's and many deer, very little, not like Ohio deer.

                                           Real bar Judge Roy Bean Held court

                                           Very bad pecan tree

                                          Armadillo

                                                    Brazos river in background