Today’s view of the neighborhood is multiple pictures of an amazing place we have in Port Aransas. The place is Winton’s Island Candies. Here is the view from the parking lot. The front window on the right gives you a hint as to the unique nature of the shop. Yes, that’s right. It says Live […]

While walking the two dogs yesterday, I was struck by the amount of traffic on the beach. There was nothing special going on, so it was a bit of a shock to see the number of folks out for a day by the Gulf. I took a photo or two which I will share. My […]

Today’s views of the neighborhood will begin at The Wetlands Educational Center (rainy day photo) This first photo (taken in the rain) is one 0f a sign explaining that the six posts on the next photo are on the compass points to six other Estuary Research Science Areas in the US. Here are the posts […]

I thought I would give you some idea of what kind of influx we see here at the coast on the holidays. As a comparison let me give you the first photo of a typical weekday.     As you can see, there are many campers down by the water’s edge. The wind was blowing […]

The idea for this post started with a search for the town alligator. Normally the Alligator does not come out while there are people around unless they have little toddlers or small dogs with them. Since it was midweek and I was alone, I did not expect to see anything on my visit to our […]

This week was very unusual on the Gulf Coast. We were caught in a weather pattern called an Omega High (so named because of the jet stream shape resembling the Greek letter Omega). This Omega High caused the winds to die down to zero and as a result, the Gulf took on a calm as […]