It seems as though three out of four days during our month-long stay in Galveston have been marked by below average temperatures, clouds, some rain, and wind. And wind.
As we watched the spray rise from the waves, we wondered what it must have been like to have winds drive waves several feet high onto the shore of Galveston Island.
The Great Storm of 1900 and even the winds of the day shown above seemed a long ways away on this sunny day as we drove along Seawall Boulevard--the beach and Gulf on our right and restaurants, condos, hotels, and typical shore-related businesses on the left.
This model (below) of a section of the seawall. The side facing the sea was designed concave to redirect the force of the waves upward. To prevent wash-out at the bottom of the structure, twenty-seven feet of granite boulders were placed to protect the base (display in the Rosenberg Library).
Makes good sense to us.
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
He can hold in his beak
Enough food for a week!
But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican?
--Dixon Lanier Merritt