Day Twenty Nine: Palacios.. 06/11/08

We had to scratch the Galveston plans because as I said, there is only one RV park on the island left standing after Hurricane Ike. It turns out it's booked up for the next few days. Undeterred we hit the road anyway.. We drove a bit further down the coast to a town called Palacios. We're getting closer and closer to the Mexico border. We do plan to cross into Mexico at some point over the next few weeks. Although we probably won't do it from Texas. We've heard it's not the safest place to cross.. We'll be passing through Arizona and of course we'll be in California too, so we'll have other opportunities. We're this close so we don't want to go home having not seen Mexico. For now we'll stay in Texas, and as I said we're in a town called Palacios. There is not really much to the town but the RV park is quite cool. It doubles up as a marina so we're a stones throw from the water.. The picture shows the view we have from the door of the RV. There is no beach but there is a small fishing pier. We managed to get the rods all fixed up and we did a spot of night fishing. The most common fish around here is the Hardhead Catfish. They are a bit hazardous to catch because they have three fins which are supported with a razor sharp barbed spine. The fin on their backs is toxic so if we we're cut by one we'd be in a serious amount of pain!! I should point out they're not life threatening. We'd just be screaming like little girls.. Aidan was the first to catch one, but he lost his hook soon after and of course he blames the fish. Ronan managed to catch two of them, and I guess I just was the lucky fisherman and caught seven. After numerous unsuccessful attempts we can finally say we caught some fish on this journey, and on The Gulf of Mexico too!! As there is not much else to do around here we'll probably just spend most of tomorrow down on he pier. Hey, we're on holidays!!