We were sitting at the dining table in the RV, at Lake Colorado City State Park, drinking hot chocolate. The day was cold, cloudy and very windy keeping up mostly inside. Kloudy alerted us to the fact that something was in the area. Looking out the window we spotted a covey of Northern Bobwhites.
I scrambled to get my camera to take some photos. These are not the best quality shots, but I enjoyed seeing this group.
This is the closest I have ever been to a covey of Northern Bobwhites and the most I have ever seen at one time.
Northern BobwhiteSite 63, Lake Colorado City State ParkAll alone, but not lonely.
We spent two nights at Lake Colorado City State Park, waiting out the snowy weather in Colorado.
Instead of heading to Amarillo and spending our time in a private RV park, we chose to stay another day in this lovely Texas State Park, observing nature without neighbors.
This was our second visit to Lake Colorado City State Park.
Our visit to the Texas Hill Country and the Buckhorn Lake Resort…
Kerrville, Texas, located in the heart of the Texas Hill Country is a picturesque place, and one of our favorite cities to visit while traveling along I10.
The Buckhorn Lake Resort is one of our favorite private parks. The Buckhorn is unique in that it offers travelers many choices of RV sites: back-in sites along grassy fields, pull-throughs in the interior of the park, pull-ins with a view of beautiful Goat Creek, an area for adults only, and privately owned Casitas with RV parking. They have rental cabins, a huge barn where entertainment and dining are offered, meeting rooms, two bath houses with hot tubs and pools, an exercise room, a doggie park, a tennis court, basketball goals, four Pickleball Courts (new), and an outside meeting place for happy hour. They also offer scheduled events and bus transportation to many of the attractions in the area – Bandara, Fredericksburg, San Antonio plus many others.
I am sure I have missed something. If interested go to their web-site and have a peek at this beautiful RV park – Buckhorn Lake Resort. They truly have earned the “Resort” in their name.
When you enter the park there is a lot of room to stop for registering or hooking-up when leaving. The registration office below.
This huge windmill sits in the middle of a circle as you enter just below the office.
View of a bath house, pool, Red Barn, rental cabins and gathering place for happy hour.
Red Barn, grounds with a dog park behind
Meeting place outside the Red Barn
Old Red Tractor wits along side the Red Barn
Rental Cabins
One of two bath houses with hot tub and pool.
A view of the Casitas. These were built during phase three. The ones below this photo were built during phase one. You can see as time passed the Casitas got larger.
Beautiful Hill Country stone, which everything is build with in the park. Another view of the Casitas below.
Beautiful Hill Country stone
Pickleball Courts on the right.
Casita’s with RV parking
Look close, in the middle of the photo below and you can just spot our coach.
View of the Casita and RV Park from a hill.Casitas on the right and some of the pull-in RV sites on the left.
Fishing Pond, edge of exercise room deck. Our site, located two sites down from the jeep above.Bridge and GazeboGazebo at night.
We spend three nights at the Buckhorn this trip, and enjoyed each day. We have traveled from Kerrville to Lake Colorado City State Park.
The rains came and haven’t stopped, reminding us once again that this is an El Nino year. What a time to be in Louisiana. What else should we have expected, plus it is Spring.
Yesterday, we were camping in Mandeville, Louisiana at Fairview Riverside State Park. The day we arrived management closed the RV loop closest to the river. We kept watching the water rise in the park and had a feeling we would be asked to evacuate, and that is what happened. We packed up quickly and drove a short distance to Hammond, Louisiana. The rains came again and haven’t stopped – twelve inches so far!
We will stay in Hammond until we feel it is safe to travel; hopefully a window of opportunity will present itself on Saturday so we can head west toward home.
We enjoyed our stay in Florida, even though it was rainy. Since my last post on travel news, we attended HamCation Ham Fest in Orlando, spend time again with friends at Lake Louisa and Rainbow Springs State Parks and then headed west. Our week at my most favorite “resort” was priceless; being with family is always a wonderful treat.
We are hoping our trek home will be dry, enjoyable and uneventful.
While camped at Lake Manatee State Park this Northern Cardinal visited our campsite. He sang his heart out for the longest time. I never did see a female around.
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