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What If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit?

After all these days wandering along Coastal Bend beaches this was my first time finding toy footwear. It must’ve been today’s theme as I found the leg and the first two non-matching shoes this morning on Mustang Island but picked up the pink one during my sunset walk here on Rockport Beach. Women and their shoe collections!

 

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Texas Man (and Woman)

Obviously, a quick internet search will prove that Florida clearly has earned its infamy as the home state of some of the most ridiculous and inept criminals (go ahead, search for Florida Man, I’ll wait). Texas, however, doesn’t like to be outdone in any category. So, I’m submitting, for your reading pleasure, this caper taken from the recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Game Warden Field Notes:

“Wardens observed an individual fishing on Richland Chambers Reservoir after dark with no lights on his boat and made contact. The subject was found to have several water safety, fishing, and narcotics violations, including no lights and no boat registration, no fishing license, using game fish for bait, leaving game fish to die, undersized crappie, and possession of methamphetamine, heroin, and marijuana. The subject was arrested and taken to the Navarro County Jail. A few days later, one of the wardens got a call from the Navarro County Sheriff’s Office informing them the subject’s wife was just arrested for trying to bond her husband out using $900 in counterfeit bills!”

An idiot two-fer!

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Copano Bay, Fulton, Texas April 2019

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Sand Turtle

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Beach Art, Found on Rockport Beach, Texas May 2019

While it is officially sea turtle nesting season on Mustang and Padre Islands this is the closest I will get to one here on my local beach. In a bit of good news, there have been 32 nests of the rarest sea turtle species, the Kemp’s Ridley, spotted at Padre Island National Seashore thus far this year.

In an effort to assist the recovery of this endangered species, all the eggs are collected by PINS staff and incubated indoors, safe from beach activities (as beach driving is allowed in Texas). Around 45 days later, the hatchlings are released. After reaching sexual maturity (roughly 10-15 years) females return to their home beach to nest. She deposits 100 eggs into the sand and can nest multiple times in a season. PINS invites the public to some of the releases, I hope to attend one next month.

 

 

 

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