Thursday, Feb 22…
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| Surf's up! (somewhere) |
Short
trip into town this morning. Visited the Texas Surf Museum. (Yeah, we know…. surf museum? Texas? Yup.) Funky little place. Most interesting thing I saw was a
board that started out as several 2x4’s glued together. Weighs about 90 pounds –
not too easy to maneuver, but apparently gave a good ride. A few blocks away we
stopped at Centennial House – “built on a bluff*
overlooking Corpus Christi Bay not quite 13 years after the fall of the Alamo, the two-story house has proven
almost as enduring. It also is on
the books as the first two-story
structure in Corpus Christi and possibly the first house with a basement (and, excluding commercial structures, still
one of only a few).” As I noted in one of yesterday’s picture captions,
altitude here (Mustang Island) is pretty much sea level. Flooding must be
commonplace.
*Can’t find a
definitive elevation, but Greg guesses maybe 200’. Most of the city is pretty flat.
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| Centennial House (open 4 hrs/week, but not today) |
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| Downtown Corpus Christi, viewed from Centennial House |
BlogThoughts… 1. Perhaps my favorite moment of the day
occurred while we were waiting for the Surf Museum to open. There are a couple
restaurants near the museum, and 2 guys in work clothes walked briskly past us
with net bags filled with oysters. Doesn’t get much fresher than that!
2. Wind. Apparently it’s pretty much always
windy here. Before supper I took a long walk on the beach with an ocean “breeze”
of about 15-20mph. Slightly at my back on the way out, definitely in my face as
I headed back. When I turned onto the paved road to camp, a carpet of rippling sand
blew directly ahead of me until I was past the dunes.
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| Wind: flag fully furled, 2nd table to shelter grill |
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| While I walked, Greg rejuvenated the wheels. |
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