Adventure!
How I could live just an hour and twenty minutes from such an amazing place for such a long time without visiting Brazos Bend State Park, I’ll never know. Today, I hopped in the car and made the drive through the city, down beautiful country roads and into the park. Within five seconds of exiting my car with my camera, I knew I had made the right decision of how to spend my Saturday. Why is that? Just across the two lane road from the Nature Center where I parked, I spotted not one or two does grazing in an open field – but five!
This is in front of the Nature Center in the park. A little blurb about the park:
Brazos Bend State Park is a 4,897-acre (1,981.7 ha) state park along the Brazos River in Needville, Texas, run by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The park is a haven for a diverse mix of native wildlife and plants covering an equally diverse range of ecosystems. Brazos Bend contains areas of coastal prairie, bottomland forest, and a wide range of wetlands including open and semi-open lakes and transitional marshlands. Highlights of the Park's numerous inhabitants include over 300 species of resident and visiting migratory birds and mammals like White-tailed deer, Nine-banded Armadillos, Raccoons, and North American River Otters. The most noteworthy and popular residents of the park are the relatively large population of American Alligators.
The park is also home to the George Observatory, a satellite facility of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. This astronomical observatory contains three domed telescopes; the largest is the Gueymard Research Telescope, which has an aperture of 36". The facility is primarily focused on public education; it includes the Challenger Learning Center for space science education and also features an exhibit of meteorites.
Adventure!
How I could live just an hour and twenty minutes from such an amazing place for such a long time without visiting Brazos Bend State Park, I’ll never know. Today, I hopped in the car and made the drive through the city, down beautiful country roads and into the park. Within five seconds of exiting my car with my camera, I knew I had made the right decision of how to spend my Saturday. Why is that? Just across the two lane road from the Nature Center where I parked, I spotted not one or two does grazing in an open field – but five!
This is in front of the Nature Center in the park. A little blurb about the park:
Brazos Bend State Park is a 4,897-acre (1,981.7 ha) state park along the Brazos River in Needville, Texas, run by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The park is a haven for a diverse mix of native wildlife and plants covering an equally diverse range of ecosystems. Brazos Bend contains areas of coastal prairie, bottomland forest, and a wide range of wetlands including open and semi-open lakes and transitional marshlands. Highlights of the Park's numerous inhabitants include over 300 species of resident and visiting migratory birds and mammals like White-tailed deer, Nine-banded Armadillos, Raccoons, and North American River Otters. The most noteworthy and popular residents of the park are the relatively large population of American Alligators.
The park is also home to the George Observatory, a satellite facility of the Houston Museum of Natural Science. This astronomical observatory contains three domed telescopes; the largest is the Gueymard Research Telescope, which has an aperture of 36". The facility is primarily focused on public education; it includes the Challenger Learning Center for space science education and also features an exhibit of meteorites.