Estero Llano Grande Stare Park

Hello, everyone. Recently we drove a few miles over to the city of Weslaco and did our training walk at Estero Llano Grande.

Estero is very pleasant to walk in, with a gift shop/pay admission place and restrooms near the parking. It seems to have been created out of old farm fields that were converted to large water features to attract birds for viewing. And there are so many to see!

There is a pond that is reputed to have an alligator in residence, but none were visible there that day. We walked every bit of trail, going up to and down from the levee several times, and on our way out we encountered a friendly couple with large telescopes on tripods (likely serious bird watchers), who pointed out a young gator sunning on a log in the pond they were observing. 

He's such a young one! 

We looked at DH's Strava at the end and discovered that we had walked 6.62 miles--more than 10 km. 

That is more than the distance to be walked if one goes from Seville to the Roman ruins of Italica in Santiponce. ;-) Not including any wandering in the ruins, of course!