Fulton Mansion
Key Allegro
Sunning Turtle

What a lovely place we find ourselves in. We went for a drive today to start exploring the area. We went along the beach road right across the street from our RV park. The first thing we came across was Fulton Mansion which was built in the late 1800's. It sported indoor hot and cold running water and a forced air furnace. It was quite the building for the time. The town of Fulton just north of Rockport (just north of Corpus Christi) sports his name. It has a lovely view of the Gulf of Mexico and is now surrounded by RV parks and small motels.

Further down the road, we came to a T in the road and went left to Key Allegro. Now, this is a neighbourhood we'd love to be a part of. Each house fronts on a street and backs onto a canal. Everyone has boats docked onto their back patios. So cool. We could just imagine what it's like in the busy season. Everyone on their back decks sipping drinks and hollering out to each other across the canal. Boats slipping out for a day of deep sea fishing or just pleasure cruising. Ahhhh, to have a spare million hanging about. It was terribly quite today, but then again it's the coldest part of the year.

We were happy to get over 60F today. It was balmy. As you can see, the turtles at our RV park felt the same way. There was an entire group of them sunning themselves at the side of the lake when we drove up, but my hopping out of the truck with the camera scared all but one of them away. We still haven't seen the alligator, but he must have been close to wanting to come out in the sun today.

Our culinary creation of the day was a citrus marinated pork loin roast with yams and black bean sauce. So absolutely fabulous, you'd never think it was gluten-free. I'm hoping that cookbook gets me a house at Key Allegro!!!!!!