Texas Highland Lakes Area

Feb 23/2018 Weather is "smirren".   As my Scottish in-laws would say!  It rained thru the night and then today it was a fine mist, "smirren" all day.  Not cold - up to 67 and in the night too. The forecast is going to get better , 70's tomorrow and the next week, low of 50 so we are all set.  You have to almost wait till March to come to this part of Texas as up till now it has been very cold. 

Highland Lakes area of Texas, about 60 miles north west of Austin

Good day to get out the rain coat and get some pictures, the mist softens all the shots.  So pretty.

Rosey in her raincoat looking down the coast line from Sunset Point RV

We have landed in Marble Falls at Sunset Point RV Resort.  Lovely, lovely, lovely rv park.  Water is on 3 sides of the park, and the sites are long and concrete and clean.  Some very high end rigs in here.

Parrots, palm trees, feet in the sand painted on the back of this high end rig

It is a hard park to get into as it is quite popular and we had heard wonderful reviews, so it will be our spot for the next 10 days and we can explore the ranch and county roads in this area.
Today we walked around the park and out into the rocky mound point.  At first we thought the pod of birds were swans then we realized they were even bigger and had a huge beak.... American White Pelicans with a wing span of 9 feet!  The flock will winter in Texas and go home as far north as the top of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.  Wow.  They are huge!!!

stalking the white pelicans

much bigger than the brown ones you see in florida

What a wonderful spot for an RV Park.   Billy was checking out the premium lake front sites with outdoor kitchens and seating for a mere $97 + tax per night.  Haha, oh no not this time...... Now let me have that credit card Billy!!!

Billy quite liked this lake front spot

So we see a big granite quarry right beside us and then wondered if there is a marble quarry; thus the name Marble Falls.  No, you will not find it as the upper layer of limestone, brownish on the exterior but a deep blue inside, was so hard and cherty it was mistaken for marble.  Cherty is a fine grained sedimentary rock composed of microcrystalline or cryptocrystalline silica.  Phew had to look that one up.  Is there ever a day you don't learn something???

we walked out to the point on the rock mound and looked back towards the campground