I thought this photo came out nice. My buddy Stevo had a weekend birthday bash for his daughter at his mother-in-law's ranch on Muesebach Creek SE of Fredericksburg. My daughter was among the guests, so we had planned a morning ride while the girls were sleeping in, and I drove in early this morning with his bike and mine. He has a Reno ride after labor day, so his mind is on training for the climb. Started off in light rain, but Texas summer rains don't cover much territory. We rode to Luchenbach and climbed on to our rest stop at the Old Tunnel Wildlife Area, which is on top of the divide between the Guadalupe and Pedernales Rivers
<http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/aP6090007.jpg> About 50' below us, as the name implies, about 4 million Mexican freetail bat mamas are napping. Their offspring, along with 50 million others, are in the nursery cave in Breckenridge - 50 miles away. The daddies stay in Mexico. The mamas feed them 5 times each night - astounding they find their own. Certainly a cool place at sundown, since you have good access to the tunnel outlet - one of the few places you can get up close and personal with the emerging bats. Here's a short video taken a few years ago. http://smg.photobucket.com/user/bulldog1935/media/mosquito/bats/bats035.mp4.html From May to October, all the airports in the region have a 45-minutes embargo every evening around the bat emergence, since it blocks their radar. Anyway, it was a quick ride down to some great strawberry and pecan pancakes waiting for us. The girls picked the fresh strawberries yesterday and Stevo's BIL roasted them with the pecans to make the pancakes - he's quite a chef. Oh yes, the ride - we had about a 5-mile downhill before we got to the slight climb at the Muesebach creek divide - we were flying downhill. Here's my buddy Stevo. <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/Raleigh/F%20Moser/aP6090004.jpg> We've been riding together since 6th grade (also fly fishing, camping and kayaking). We rode together in college in Austin. Rode together with and without our ex-wives (all of them). Now our teenage daughters are best friends, and we do all these things with them, as well. <http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v728/bulldog1935/estes/campout/aP3110031.jpg> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
