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Originally Posted by Shannon
Thanks for sharing your photos -- the Brazos Bend ones are enough to make me want to declare a week off from my small business desk-bound duties to actually (novel thought!) take photos! We always see a lot of gators at Brazos, but your shots show they're out in full force and not minding being right out on the trail which makes for some awesome viewing and photography. That, and I can't get over how lush green everything is there -- I know it's the Houston area so it gets a lot more rain than we do here in San Antonio, but for July that's still an impressive amount of growth!
I need to take better notes, as there are certain times of the year that the water lilies are in bloom on the lakes (40 Acre in particular)... but we haven't timed our last couple visits to coincide with that, apparently.
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I'm sure the green-ness is due to the fact that we had the wettest June on record, unless you count the flood from TS Allison back in '01. Around the 4th of July I heard that there was not a single day in June when it didn't rain. The past 2 times I've been there, the area beneath the long bridge near 40-Acre was relatively dry. In fact, I recall cycling through the trough on my last trip there. This time, the water was several inches deep. There was a family of small ducks tooling around right beside the bridge but the pics came out lousy.
Thanks for the compliments on my photos. Coming from a pro, it means a lot. I've already decided that my Xmas present to myself is going to be a better digital camera. I'm really catching a dose of shutterbug.
If I had a decent optical zoom, I could have gotten so many really good wildlife pics. As I said to Todd, hiking alone has great stealth advantages when it comes to wildlife viewing. I would have loved to get pics of that heron and his crawfish dillema. I passed on photographing the two gators fussing over the gator corpse but I probably should have. One doesn't get chances like that often.
Alas, school starts back on Aug 23rd so I will have to hang up the hiking boots until mid-Dec and I'm not sure what areas are good for winter hiking. Maybe I'll do Lost Maples again so I can see the rest of it.
I'll take some time in the next week to sort through my recent pics and send the betters ones this way. I'm open to suggestions if there are ones that you (or others) particularly liked.