I decided to join Marilyn Kircus on her annual kayaking trip to Goose Island St. Park with several members of HASK (Houston Area Sea Kayakers).  Goose Island is located about 45 miles north of Corpus Christi where St. Charles Bay joins with the larger Aransas Bay.  The Aransas National Wildlife Refuge occupies the north and east side of St. Charles Bay on what is known as Black Jack Penninsula.  We put in at a point about 2 miles up the west side of St. Charles Bay for the trip to the north end of the bay.  The morning fog was just lifting and the wind was dead calm as we launched.  We paddled up the west side of the bay for a couple of hours, stopped for lunch, and then headed back along the eastern shore. About 30 minutes before trip's end the eminent arrival of the expected cold front was announced by an ominously dark and rolling cloud.  Fortunately it passed over us with neither rain nor lightning and we were able to get all the kayaks loaded before the wind really kicked in.  We had one very good Whooping Crane sighting with 2 adults and 1 juvenille.  I did not want to get too close and disturb them so my pictures do not do justice to the views I got through the binoculars.  Amazingly a pair flew by right in front of us as we were loading the kayaks at the end of the trip.