We rented a house on the Gulf Coast of Texas for a month and ended up
staying for three months. We knew the birding would be good and the diving bad,
but there were national seashores and wildlife refuges to visit, and coastal
bays and estuaries to kayak. And while we had explored West Texas from El Paso
to Big Bend National Park on the Rio Grande, we had not spent time in the Coastal Bend.
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| Rande and the Big Blue Crab, a local Rockport landmark on Little Bay |
