We arrived at Casa de Kiehm and are enjoying Jackie and John and Chocolate, their beautiful home and their most relaxing pool.
Here is the view from the pool. This is the Guadalupe River. It empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
John Cady vacuumed the pool and John Kiehm gave instructions.
We drove 119 miles round trip to a place in the middle of nowhere. We went to eat the fourth best hamburger in the State of Texas. We can't imagine what the first three must be like because these burgers were out of this world!
The inside of the Cafe isn't much but no one cares. When you put your name on the list for a table the hostess says to get a beer or soft drink. It is all on the honor system.
John Kiehm is up for the challenge!
These hamburgers are worth a return trip!
Our next stop was the Old Tunnel Wildlife area. We were waiting for 3 million Mexican Free-tailed Bats to rise up out of this cave, fly up to 2 miles high to feed or to catch tail winds that carry them over long distances at speeds of more than 60 miles an hour. The bats eat 200 tons of insects nightly. One way they help farmers is by eating the silver moths that attack the corn crops in the Mid-West. The bats return to their cave before dawn every day. Each year the bats migrate to Mexico but return to the same cave the next year.
A hawk was in the trees waiting for a bat to eat. The grey areas are the bats gathering in the trees, waiting to take flight.
Here you see a Mexican Free-tailed Bat under glass. Did you know that 1,100 kinds of bats account for almost a quarter of all mammal species?
I forgot to include this picture in my cafe photos. The dress code for Texas is sundresses and cowboy boots.
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