Sunday – Fifty-Two Views of the Gulf

~ John W. Howell

Here is this week’s photo of the Gulf.

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As you can see the wind has brought the sand a little further onto the crossover and the morning glories are there but hard to see. The tracks in the sand are from the folks who got up early to set up their pop-up in their preferred spot. Have to wonder what time they did that maneuver? Beautiful day forecasted. Means a bunch of folks will show up to spend the day. Just for fun I took another photo in the afternoon to let you see what a day at the beach looks like.

This week only later in the day.

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You  can still see the blue pop-up but now many more folks.

Last week’s photo

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Not too much different from this week.

43 thoughts on “Sunday – Fifty-Two Views of the Gulf”

        4. Yeah, but as the sand gets dry and loose, it’s deep and cars get stuck. Then there’s the tide that silently creeps in under cars. Costs to get towed, people learn. The city/beach park people do run graders down to smooth beach and clean it.
          TX has an open beach law ( from water to first line of dune vegetation growth) to allow public access to it all. Majority of places(Galveston Island) you have to park in provided parking places and hike a little bit. People got tired of kids making sand castles being in danger and a couple of people got run over in years past, so cars are banned on many beaches in this area – down the coast south may have other options – lots of Padre Island area was closed to cars. Part of far East Beach Galveston is open to cars(but there is a park entrance fee if you drive in instead of park and walk) – this allows fishermen, big families, and sailors with catamarans/kite surfer/ windsurfers to have access to launch directly into the waves of the gulf without having to haul boats over the dunes down narrow trails. Trust me, carrying a boat down a trail with deep sand is tough.
          Wind and waves smooth out the sand lumps here pretty quickly.

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  5. Seriously?? All that “equipment” is permitted on the beach there? I used to live in Gulfport, MS, and they banned that sort of thing by providing plenty of parking OFF the beach and allowing vendors to set up their ski and parasail rentals, etc. in only certain spots. Something tells me this much “activity” would ruin the view for me — guess I value more seclusion than that! How I miss that white sand, though!

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  6. Holy Hannah… what a lot of traffic on the beach. I’m afraid i would feel like my front yard was being invaded.
    But it does look like a beautiful day. And “happy noise” is much preferable to the other kinds.
    Wishing you a wonderful week. Hugs!

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  11. Sure looks familiar. I won’t back to the TX gulf coast beach until all the kids are back in school/shopping for at the mall for back to school and the tourists are gone. Fall and winter are great there. Couldn’t ask for a better backyard, right?

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