Oh the Sun Came Out! For a Little While!!!

Palm Trees line the streets and medians along Shoreline Blvd.

There is a very small area with a sandy beach right in the heart of downtown Corpus Christi...between the T-heads and coastline hotels. During the winter months, the beach is quiet and, if lucky, you can find sea glass (sea glass is sand washed glass that has been eroded to a smooth, somewhat opaque discoloration and often used for jewelry making).  Since it was cloudy in the morning, and my first intended destination was nixed 'cause of an accident closing the northbound lanes over the harbor bridge, I decided to stop at the beach and walk the distance with adding more steps to my daily count going beyond and into a city park...

From the beach, looking toward the bluff, many churches line the streets...

For surge protection [tropical storms and hurricanes], the city has the seawall, AND a breaker. I walked out partially...



Views from the beach:

Just one skyscraper in this photo [there are about 5 or 6, never counted to be honest] and the back part of the marina where the yacht club exists, a hotel from the beach, and usually I show you the street side of the miradors looking out to the bay...this time, from the beach looking toward the bluffs.

On the beach...first image an immature ring billed sea gull sleeping, the 2nd photo is of the laughing gull [smaller] and adult ringed billed, and a tern in flight...

Not quite my two mile walk along the beach and back, so off to a nearby park: