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Outdoor Activities ...
As we travel, we like to pursue some of our interests (such as astronomy and bird watching).
When in Old Airport Road Colonia, we use the following websites to find information relevant to Old Airport Road Colonia and the surrounding area.
- Weather ...
- Before heading outdoors, you should check the weather:
- The National Weather Service forecast for Old Airport Road Colonia
- Astronomy & Satellites ...
- Whether using binoculars, a small telescope or the naked-eye, the Heavens-Above
website can help you to find your way around the night-time sky. In addition to detailed
sky charts, their website will help you find planets, asteriods, comets, satellites and their tracks across the sky.
- To give accurate results, Heavens-Above requires the latitude and longitude of your location. As a starting point, when we link to Heavens-Above,
we pass this GPS location for Old Airport Road Colonia:
- 28.425275, -97.768332
- Once you're on the Heavens-Above website, you can improve its accuracy by giving a more precise longitude and latitude as your actual position.
- Open the Heavens-Above website centered on Old Airport Road Colonia
- Bird Watching ...
- We enjoy finding new spots for bird watching and we use the eBird website for local sighting reports and to help identify hotspots.
- The eBird website is organized on a county-by-county basis. We have selected Bee County as the starting point when you click on the link below:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Bee County
- Since Old Airport Road Colonia is near Live Oak County and also Goliad County, we have provided a link to their eBird sighting reports:
- Open the eBird sighting report for Live Oak County
- Open the eBird sighting report for Goliad County
- Waymarking ...
- Looking for somewhere out of the ordinary? Find a unique place and want to share it with others? Then it's time to visit Waymarking.com:
- Open the Waymark.com report for Old Airport Road Colonia
Curious and Interesting Names Near Old Airport Road Colonia ...
As we travel, we always see a community with a name that gives pause. While there are names which are interesting or familiar, some catch our attention or strike our fancy. We always wonder about such a name. If time permits and the community is not too far, we'll usually try to make a side-trip.
- Beeville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Blue Berry Hill
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Blue Berry Hill is located in Bee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Berry Hill
- Green
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Green is located in Karnes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green
- Hideaway Hill
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Hideaway Hill is located in Live Oak County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hideaway Hill
- Mineral
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Oaks
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Oaks is located in Bee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oaks
- Orangedale
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Orangedale is located in Bee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orangedale
- Peace Valley Harbor
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Peace Valley Harbor is located in Live Oak County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peace Valley Harbor
- Skidmore
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
How Far From Old Airport Road Colonia to ...
We spend a lot of time looking through Gazetteers that were published in the late 1800's and early 1900's. Many of the Gazetteers include the distance from a community such as Old Airport Road Colonia to various places of note, such as the White House.
With a nod to our favorite Gazetteers, the straight-line distance<2> beginning in Old Airport Road Colonia and extending to:
- Beeville, which is the Seat of Bee County, lies just to the Southeast.
- Austin, which is the State Capital of Texas, lies 127 miles [204.4 km]<2> to the north (N). If you could drive a straight line from Old Airport Road Colonia to Austin, with an average speed<3>of 63 miles [101.4 km] per hour, it would take less than three hours to make the trip. A comfortable walk of 2.2 miles [3.5 km] per hour would take 8 days. A horse and buggy averaging 3.2 miles [5.1 km] per hour would take 5 days.
- The White House (Washington, DC) is 1,388 miles [2,233.8 km] to the northeast (NE). Driving would take about three full days, a buggy would take 55 days and walking would take 79 days.
- The shortest distance<4> to Jerusalem (specifically the Temple Mount and the Dome of the Rock) is 7,251 miles [11,669.4 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<5>
- The distance to the Great Mosque of Mecca (specifically the Ka'bah - or Kaaba ) is 7,975 miles [12,834.5 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<6>
- The distance to Saint Peter's Basilica (The Vatican) is 5,851 miles [9,416.3 km] and it lies to the northeast (NE).<7>'
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Old Airport Road Colonia) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | While we have tried to pick reasonable speeds, the rate of travel is very theoretical - obstacles like fences, hills, lakes, river crossings and rest stops have been ignored. When we say 'Days' of travel, we're assuming 8 hours of travel per day. |
| <4> | The shortest line can be visualized by stretching a string on a Globe from Point A to Point B - this is known as a Great Circle Route. Where you might expect the shortest route from Old Airport Road Colonia to the Middle East to be East and South, the Great Circle Route actually lies to the North and East.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old Airport Road Colonia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.4253, Longitude: -97.7683 In this case, the coordinates for Old Airport Road Colonia have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Jerusalem is 319.933 degrees. |
| <6> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to Mecca is 315.926 degrees. |
| <7> | The calculated bearing (or angle) to the Vatican is 315.464 degrees. |
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