Rivers of Texas
Jun. 21st, 2009 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mcroftOne of our favorite local restaurants to take visitors to is the Hula Hut. Created by the Chuy's people, Hula Hut is a Tex-Mex/Micronesian fusion restaurant, serving such delicacies as the Polynesian Pescado Pu Pu Platter and other tasty, tasty crimes against nature.
It's on Lake Austin next to Tom Miller Dam, and when the weather permits, you can eat on a pier. There's a separate pier for boats to tie up at and it's necessarily casual, which fits the themes nicely.
This being Austin, Grackles are everywhere. At the Hula Hut, they like to wait near the pierside tables and bars and hope that someone will feed them chips.
Watching the grackles led to seeing the turtles swimming in the water. Looking for the turtles led to seeing the catfish, then three catfish, all very big (24"?). Looking for more catfish led to seeing a gar.
The moral of this story is "look at stuff, you never know what you'll see."
It's on Lake Austin next to Tom Miller Dam, and when the weather permits, you can eat on a pier. There's a separate pier for boats to tie up at and it's necessarily casual, which fits the themes nicely.
This being Austin, Grackles are everywhere. At the Hula Hut, they like to wait near the pierside tables and bars and hope that someone will feed them chips.
Watching the grackles led to seeing the turtles swimming in the water. Looking for the turtles led to seeing the catfish, then three catfish, all very big (24"?). Looking for more catfish led to seeing a gar.
The moral of this story is "look at stuff, you never know what you'll see."
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