Day 273  Beautiful, sunny day in Port Isabel, TX.  We are on our way this afternoon to take Snuggles for a run on the beach on South Padre Island.

Yesterday we visited the new Birding Center on South Padre, after Snugs' run.  We walked the 1 mile of boardwalk that is built out into the wetlands on Laguna Madre.  In addition to many other birds, fish, butterflies, etc., we saw a humungous Great Blue Heron AND a small alligator sunning itself on a little hump of an island in the wetlands.

After the usual beautiful Ash Wednesday service last night, we joined a group of parishioners for dinner at a restaurant on the water. 

Perfect day.

Snuggles is waiting, not too patiently, to go for her run.