Galveston Island Trip

On Thursday the 25th my son and another friend went on a 12 hr deep sea fishing trip out of Galveston Island, Texas. We left at 7:30 am and thought we were in for a 1.5 hr ride to the fishing spot. But to get 40-80 out, it took us 4 hours! I was wondering if we were in a Steven King book and walked up and looked in the pilot cabin wondering if the guy fell asleep. We all doped up on Dramamine an hour before the trip and all did fine during that 4 hour ride. But when we stopped and went down to my slot, that ugly sick feeling hit and I went to the restroom and both stalls were occupied so I threw up in the sink. I later saw a sign on the door saying, “If you’re sick, go outside.” Oops!

I was fine after that and we had fun fishing, catching vermilion snappers and caught some nice, huge red snappers and a trigger fish we ended up throwing back because they were out of season. My son caught a nice size Kingfish also. We caught more than we were able to keep and sometimes two at a time.

We later did the usual beach combing and then down to the Historic Strand Street area and down several streets with beautiful Victorian houses. A neat place I would like to go back to and spend more time on the beach and looking at all the historical buildings.

                                                                       Tin man & Toto
                                         "Carved by artist James Phillips from a 90 yr old Live
                                         Oak killed by Ike. The carving honers King Willis
                                         Vidor (1894-1982) one of the directors of The Wizard
                                         of Oz,who was born in this home."

                                              Hurricane Ike water level mark in downtown.

                                                                    Catch of the day

                                                             My son and I with our catch

                                                         Local character cruising the street

                                                                  Galveston Pleasure Pier

O'Donnell Texas

                                         The O'Donnell full service gas station with the owners
                                         Maurice & Patsy Jackson owners for 45 years, and
                                         my sister.

First Blog

So this is my first attempt at a Blog post. Interesting so far? ... NOT!

I will talk about mainly photography and my travels. I will back tract to the first of 2013 because I went to Bosque Del Apache with my sister to meet the Dallas Camera Club on a field trip. At that time my back was starting to give me real problems and during that trip I realized I was in trouble and HAD to see a doctor. Long story short, mid Feb I had back surgery to fix a herniated disk and recovery was slow. I was out of work 3 months and now in July doing much better.

So now I'm starting to resume my camera trips and next week I will be going to Galveston, Tx to fish on a 12 hour party boat with my son and another friend. That should be interesting! More next week.

REWIND: The second week of Jan my sister and I went on a ROAD TRIP heading to Bosque del Apache NM to see the wintering Sandhill Cranes. We started out wednesday morning going out I-20  and stopped in Cisco, Sweetwater, Snyder, and Lamesa. We were targeted to stop in a small town called O'Donnell on Hwy 87. Here there is a old gas station with the claim of being the last real full service station. owned by Maurice & Patsy Jackson for the last 45 years.  Bob Phillips "Texas Country Reporter" TV show had done a story a few months previous, but I had a monthly magazine with the Jackson's story I wanted to get an autograph on. What is super weird, after talking to the Jackson, my sister's ex-husbands family was from there and they remembered the family. Anyway, they were wonderful, I got my autograph and on down the road we went.