Sunday – Fifty-Two Views of the Gulf

August 30, 2015August 29, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 26 Comments

Today’s photo shows a continued lack of a lot of visitors on the beach. You can tell the wind has been calm since there are a lot of footprints leading to and from the walkover. There is one lone camper on the left, and they look like they will not be staying too long. The temp this morning was a cool 78 degrees and since the humidity is in the 60’s it seems much cooler. The water is still at 89 degrees, so it feels like a bath when you go in.

Last week’s photo.

You can see the effects of high winds on the sand and the lack of footprints.

Sunday – Fifty-Two Views of the Gulf

August 23, 2015August 22, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 26 Comments

Today’s view shows the fact that weekends are beginning to wind down. All the schools in Texas will be in session starting Monday so not too many families will be able to get away from school activities to go to the beach. As you can see the winds are relatively calm and the seas as well. You can see the yellow flowers to the left and a few on the right. The morning glories have all but disappeared.

Last week’s photo.

Nice to have the RV on the road. Have a great week!

Sunday – Fifty-Two Views of Gulf

August 16, 2015August 16, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 18 Comments

Now we are talking. This week’s shot finally captured the elusive RV camping site. This one is fairly typical. You have your three pick-up trucks, a tent for the young-uns, and the palatial RV for the oldsters. The generator (that you can’t hear) sound is picked up by the Gulf breezes and carries right into one’s ear way back off the beach. The water is calm and you can also see the yellow and white flowers. The two on foot are neighbors going down to the beach to secure a spot before the next RV pulls in. It is a beautiful day.

Last week’s photo.

Sunday – Fifty Two Views of the Gulf

August 9, 2015August 9, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 26 Comments

As you can see, the wave action is back. The wind has been consistent at about 15 MPH for the last four days. The wind seems to naturally lead to higher waves and since last week there were almost none I guess you can correlate wind velocity with wave action (DUH. Big science going on here). The yellow flowers are barely visible and the purple morning glories have been replaced by white. Don’t ask me why cause I don’t know why. High today about 90 degrees which are 10 degrees cooler than inland. The nice thing about the gulf it keeps you cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter. The water is 88 degrees today.

Last week’s photo

you can see the lack of waves. Have a good week.

Sunday – Fifty-Two Views of the Gulf

August 2, 2015August 1, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 23 Comments

Here is this week’s photo. You can see the Gulf is very calm. There are hardly any waves. We have had a couple of days with winds below 5 MPH and coupled with the full moon the wave action is almost non-existent. The purple morning glories are pretty much spent but you can see some little splotches of yellow to the right. A few visitors to the beach and there are some tire tracks of one of our neighbors who is setting up by the water.

Last week’s photo

Sunday – Fifty -Two Views of the Gulf

July 26, 2015July 23, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 28 Comments

Here is this week’s photo.

As you can see the beach is completely deserted with is a surprise in that these are the last days before school starts. Looks like the beach goers have decided to make it a late day. You can see the marks made by an earth mover. I purposely did not include it in the shot since next Tuesday I have a couple of photos of the monsters.

Last week’s photo is not too different, but there are a few more people.

Sunday Fifty-Two Views of the Gulf

July 19, 2015July 18, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 26 Comments

Here is this week’s photo

Not too much has changed from last week. There are a few people walking on the beach and enjoying the morning. The morning glories are in bloom and there are a few orange flowers in the foreground.

Last week’s photo

Fifty-Two Views of the Gulf

July 12, 2015July 11, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 22 Comments

Here is this week’s photo.

There are far fewer cars on the beach because this is not a holiday weekend. In fact the only folks on the beach were two dogs and their owners. You can see the dogs in the center of the photo. The yellow morning glories are out in full force. The footprints tell a tale of a number of visitors coupled with low tides and moderate wind..

Last week’s photo.

Sunday – Fifty-Two Views of the Gulf

July 5, 2015July 4, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 14 Comments

Here is this week’s photo.

You will notice immediately that there are a number of pop-ups and cars on the beach early. This is the way of a holiday weekend. The yellow morning glories are in full bloom and the purple morning glories almost invisible. There is also a big berm of sand where the road grader came by and smoothed the sand for the vehicles. You can see it beyond the path and it doesn’t look high, but it is at least two feet tall. A large number of footprints can attest to the amount of visitors here this weekend.

Last week’s photo

Sunday – Fifty-Two Views of the Gulf

June 28, 2015June 28, 2015 ~ John W. Howell ~ 43 Comments

Here is this week’s photo of the Gulf.

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.

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

Last week’s photo

Not too much different from this week.