Left Miami Monday night and arrived in Austin Tuesday night - 20 hours; not bad. Listening to the weather report tonight in Austin, I hear there were tornados, flooding and horrible weather every where I was. I didn't see any of that - a little cloudy, that's it.
After arriving in Austin tonight, I saw the coolest thing. This is the Congress Street Bridge, and two million Mexican Free-Tail Bats live under it. Every night at dusk, the bats fly out looking for food. It is a positively beautiful sight.
This is one of the largest world's largest urban bat colonies.
Here are some close-ups of the bats. They are so small and moving so fast, besides it being dark, they are very hard to photograph.
A little bird was keeping me company while I was waiting for the bats!
Austin at night.
I didn't really spend a lot of time in Austin. The next day, I walked around the town a little. It's a big music town, so there were guitars and music stores everywhere. It's a nice place!
I am assuming this building is the capital building.
A little video of the bats
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The nitwit in the background yapping is NOT me!
