Camping weather

 

 

Now we’re at Goose Island State Park.

 https://www.google.com/maps/@28.1344817,-96.9935125,15z?entry=ttu

 Move in day.

 

Three hours north.  Got set up before sundown.  It should be a little chilly tonight, but warmer after that.

 

Sunday morning

 

 

A treat.  Coffee, homemade cinnamon rolls, and eggs for breakfast.  Yum.  Sweet!  The eggs were so we could feel a little better about ourselves after.

 

Maybe we should have had some oatmeal too.

 

 

And this little guy

 

 

 

You can see how small he is compared to the gulls behind him.  He looks a lot like the semipalmated plover, but the color is a little lighter and the legs are more yellow.

 

Piping Plover.

 

 

Tiny little semipalmated plovers on the mudflats

 

 

 

 

 

 

When it comes to electric trucks

 

 

Particularly those with trailers.  The trailers have all that vertical and horizontal surface.  Let’s extend the range of each by putting lightweight solar panels all over the trailers.  (Okay, maybe there aren’t really lightweight efficient inexpensive solar panels yet, but let’s pretend.)  Not all of them will face the sun at once, but at least some of them will all the time.  They can collect and charge throughout the daylight hours whether the truck is driving or not.  Less stops to recharge.  Less recharging through the grid if the electric fleet is plugged in at night.  It could happen.  Someday.  Better batteries, better solar panels, eventually each truck could be independent with unlimited range.

 

 

The Great Blue Heron

 

 

 

It’s ubiquitous.

 

 

Elegant?

 

 

At least unusual.  The American oystercatcher