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| We saw this on the back of a truck one day😊 |
We walked
around downtown, stopped at a bar where there was live music, and then headed
over to the Congress Avenue bridge.
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| We saw this notice at the bar we were in, when we were LEAVING! |
The reason we
came to Austin, was to see “the bats” (flagermus). Over a million of them live
under the bridge, and at sunset (solnedgang), they all fly out to feed for the
night.
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| JJ says that he wants a few of these as pets, because one bat can eat 600 mosquitoes in an hour. (For the Danes: det er noget, der batter😊) |
I had read on the internet, that this week, they would be coming out around 6:45-7:30(18:45-19:30). We got to the bridge early, because we wanted to get a good spot to stand. We ended up waiting over an hour, because they first started flying at 7:38 (19:38). When they did start flying, they just kept coming. It was hard to get a picture of, because they were small, flying fast, and it was getting dark. Here are the best we could get.
Thursday,
March 29: Way back in October, we met a couple from Texas at a camp ground in
Connecticut. They helped us get set up, when we were having difficulty. At that
time, we exchanged e-mail addresses, and they invited us to stop by, if we were
in the area.
We went to
visit them today. Gay and Greg live on Lake LBJ in Sunrise Beach. They took us
on a boat ride, and we talked non-stop for 3 hours. They are very nice people,
and they gave us lots of camping/travel tips. 
On the way to their house, we drove around looking for wild flowers. Texas is known for their wild flowers, and the spring flowers are in bloom now.
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| Blue bonnets are the state flower, and they are in full bloom now |
Written by
Mary
P.S. We
stopped at a park to eat lunch. They had just had a rock sculpture festival.
Here are some of the things we saw:
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