Pelican Squadrons & Stingray City

As we were walking along the beach this morning, we saw squadron after squadron of pelicans flying low along the water. There were a lot of them and Jerry and I began to wonder if some of the Louisiana pelicans have moved to Texas to enjoy the clean water and good fishing!



These aren't great photos, but you can see them skimming the water and looking for fish.



Long lines of them - with maybe 10 or 12 pelicans each.



As we started to walk back to the car, we saw an area of chopped up water and lots of fins. As we approached, this is what we saw ...



A large group of stingrays was migrating west along the water's edge.



We've seen them before, but these looked to be a different type of stingray. They were gray with dark tips on their "wings" and were quite large ... more like the ones we saw in Grand Cayman than the small, brown ones that moved by Galveston several years ago.



You can see all the small fins breaking the water in this wide shot. There were at least 50 of them and they were sort of swarming around as they moved down the beach.



You really never know what you're going to see ~ I was happy I had taken my camera!