We stayed at Davis Bayou Campground for a couple of days. No major attractions, just wonderful hiking in a salt marsh area. The pictures include wildlife we saw along the paths. We saw snapping turtles, box turtles, gopher tortoise (never saw this one before, it sort of looks like a helmet), oysters, muscles, snails, armadillo, squirrels, and the coolest was an alligator. The picture isn’t the best, but I wasn’t about to get closer or to tell the gator to smile for the picture.
If we were birders, this would be the place to be. The large white bird is a Great Egret plus there were plenty of herons. There were dozens of different species in the park. Unfortunately I could only identify a few. It appeared that some of these (like red-winged blackbirds) were Northerners vacationing in the South like us.
At the next park, I had planned that we would see a nearby military museum. Unfortunately I missed where it said it was closed on Monday. Instead we took a short hike at the park. This park was 70 miles inland. Even so, there was plenty of sand and very little dirt. Some upgrades were needed. Several rickety structures (tower, bridges, raised walkways) had signs with YCC 1979 (Youth Conservation Corp) on them. I realized that these were built at the same time I was a freshman in college. No wonder they were rickety!
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