Echoing in the wells of....

...silence!!

please note: I may be M I A for a while. Explanation on my previous post seen HERE

Listen to the sounds! The gulls laughing, the herons calling a warning, the people talking as they walk the seawall, the bay water lapping against the wall, the ships' horns. But, if you're like me you can 'drown' all those sounds out and just listen to the music of silence as you gaze upon the sea-------

Last week, y'all took a walk with me along Indian Point and Sunset Lake. How 'bout a morning walking along the downtown seawall and stopping by while leisurely sitting on one of the many many benches where you find several gazebos looking out on the bay. It's a busy place. So much activity of water birds, ships, people walking and jogging...the wonderful spray of the fountains. And my favorite to watch when here, relaxing and enjoying the perfect weather for October...the shrimp boats!! Here, I hope you'll come along as I share about an hour's time looking out along the bay. As they trawl outside the perimeter with the nets dragging to collect their catch of the day to returning to the marina to sell their catch, the shrimper slowly makes its way through the breakwater [the large boulders to help BREAK storms coming into the city] then, stopping to drain the water, begin cleaning up and closing the trawler nets to make it through the small water channel to the docking area...all the time, the gulls and pelicans and cormorants follow in anticipation of the 'unwanted catches' tossed overboard ---

---then, there is much other ship activities. On this particular day, the Coast Guard Cutter was making the rounds along the exposed ship channel that eventually heads to Port Aransas and out to the Gulf of Mexico. The last of this Coast Guard series, I wanted to show you in comparing sizes of the USCG Cutter and the World War II aircraft carrier that is permanently docked at North Bay...

...while we were sitting enjoying the cool Autumn sea breeze and warm sunshine, a couple of very large flat bed barges played "chicken" of the sea. Watching them head into each other bow first...it's like they were playing the teen-age game of chicken...."Who's gonna turn off course first to avoid collision?" Neither!! They were actually a safe distance apart.

And lastly, the views of birds, the sea, the downtown Marina on People's Street and the Corpus Christi and Portland Causeway [bridge] that crosses the Rincon Channel in Nueces Bay. To the open, diamond-studded sea. Corpus Christi is often nicknamed the Sparkling City by the Bay....

...by the way, from downtown, looking across the bay, you can actually see Portland and Indian Point Park where Bud and I often go on a birding trek - enlarge the photos and the last smaller one in the last series of photos IS Indian Point Park!