Gulf Coast: Surf and world-class Turf
Bring your flip-flops and sunscreen and let the relaxation begin. The Texas coast stretches more than 400 miles from the border of Louisiana to the beginnings of Mexico. Find out what adventures lie ahead.
The Gulf Coast offers numerous attractions, endless entertainment and the perfect atmosphere to get away from it all. Discover the possibilities.
Doc Blakely, musician, rancher, humorist, and all-around colorful Whartonian, hams it up in front of the newly restored Wharton County Courthouse. “Wharton is a town with a lot of character … and a lot of characters,” proclaims Blakely.
Commorants roost in Claybottom Pond, a rookery in the Smith Oaks Sanctuary. Note the great egret on a nest at the far right.
"If
you want to see Brownsville as it was 150 years ago, look up at the
second and third floors of its old buildings. Owners used to renovate
only the bottom floors ..."
Long before I actually laid eyes on the Habitat, an eight-acre nature
retreat wedged between Goose Island State Park and the Aransas National
Wildlife Refuge just north of Rockport, I was fascinated by its promise of peaceful seclusion.
This coastal city provides a paradise for wildlife and wildlife watchers with deer that stroll through downtown, ducks that blanket the sky and turkeys that trot by hotels.
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Brownsville: Beauty on the Border
