East Coast Trip Day 4

Day 4,
We woke up to the temperatures in the low 30's. A little colder than we were expecting. With wind chill it felt like the low 20's.

Wall-E, Dug and Ellie under the Lone Star

Cameo with the pups behind the state of Texas

 

 

Louisiana here we come

 

Wow, what a bridge, straight up and straight down



 

We drove about 250 miles making only one detour. We visited the Creole Nature Trail and drove through the Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge. We saw quite a few birds of all types. We managed to get a few photos of the birds. I'm not exactly sure if I got the names right. We were greatly surprised to see what we thought were Flamingo's which we were told we wouldn't see, go figure. The birds are actually Exotic Roseate Spoonbills.

 

Geese? I don't know what kind

Same here

More Geese?

Some kind of duck?

Mallard? with a big bill?

Dark Ibis

Great Blue Heron, huge bird with 8' wingspan

Flamingos? No, they are Exotic Roseate Spoonbills

 Bayou Swamp Land, probably full of Crawdads

Old State Capital Building

From there we drove through downtown Baton Rouge to see the old state capital building. It is a beautiful building overlooking the mighty Mississippi. We managed to drive through downtime at about 4:30pm with all the traffic. The motorhome pulling the jeep was quite large to be cruising the downtown area in but we managed to do it without hitting a thing.
Our final stop for the night was at a Walmart parking lot in Baton Rouge.