After leaving Washington, we headed for the Coastal Bend of Texas for the rest of the winter. I had been to Corpus Christi a couple
times on business and the area looked interesting. The northern Gulf of
Mexico is well-known for recreational fishing and the coastal marshes and
woodlands are birding meccas. We were ready to leave the cold and wet Pacific Northwest. We rented a house in Rockport, about a
half-hour east of Corpus (as the locals refer to it), and became honorary
“winter Texans” (the Texas equivalent of "snowbirds" of the Southwest). Here’s the first of a couple posts on the interesting things
we learned in this corner of the Lone Star State.
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| Small (coppice) dune on the beach at Padre Island National Seashore |
