turltes, turtles, and more turtles

We released about 300 hatchlings down at the cabin, early morning before we went out on partol. They are sooo cute



The underside of one that got flipped over from the tide coming in. too cute


A stranded Green turtle we took to the ARC for a check up. He looked pretty healthy, we were not sure why he had come up on the beach, maybe to get away from a shark.

climbing does exist in texas!

So we went to Austin, about 3.5 hours away and found this sweet little canyon in Reimers county park. It was full of trees, moss, and ferns; a completely different world from the sand dunes and palm trees of corpus christi. There was also a natural spring that ran through the canyon down to the river, following this, we found an awesome rope swing that dropped you into the cool, refreshing, non salt water. later that night we went to the missy higgins and mason jennings concert. Good time fo sho!

time for a new running route?

so i'm still trying to find a good running route, too bad my choices are running on the sidewalk in the busy city or running down little streets full of stray dogs.
this morning i went running with my two little, hairy canines, kona and granite. as we went running past this "fenced in" yard, i noticed that part of the fence was not complete just as, not one, not two, but 5 huge rottweilers came tearing out under the fence and immediately surrounded my little running team. Lucky me, was stuck in the middle of the mass of snarling dogs, getting tangled up in leashes. the rottweilers kept cirlcling around us, and jumping at kona, a gnarly fight was about to erupt. i was struggling to maintain control of the situation, as you can imagine. i had pulled kona and granite in really close and set about yelling as harshly as i could while spinning 360's. the spinning method was a brilliant way to get as many kicks out as possible. as i spun around i would front kick with my right leg and then follow that with an immediate back kick with my left. it worked pretty well, kona and granite were shorter so i could kick over their heads and kick the rottweilers in the face as they lunged for us. the tension and was beginning to peak, and i was fresh out of options, when finally the owner of the dogs came running over and called/ pulled his dogs off. he gave his sincerest apologies, and my frazzled running team continued on our way. i could feel my adrenaline surging. amazingly enough, we were unscathed, kona just had dog slobber on her.
i think ive about run outta luck. needless to say, we found another route home.

ahh the little thrills of running

so this morning, i was jogging along down the street,breathing in that wonderfully thick, humid air. in my own little world, when i suddenly noticed a large, black, vicious hairball of a dog running at me with a nice set of sharp teeth. to my surprise and dismay he was only about 6 feet away from me and coming(usually they bark or you can hear them them running towards you, but this fellow was a quit the ambusher). luckily my years of running and being chased by dogs has fine tuned my instincts for these kind of situations. my mouth instantly opened and my lungs erupted with a series of threats and commands in my most terrifying voice. lucky for me the dog skidded to a stop (much too close for comfort) instead of taking a chunk out of my exposed thigh. i backed away from him, still yelling, for a couple feet and then continued on my way. I'm glad i didn't have kona and granite w me, a fight would have surely arisen.

The first real patch of grass ive found down here w/out stickers. Much easier on the feet

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Little free concert we went to downtown. A few dread heads were there. First ive seen down here- besides myself

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