Download or read book Texas Barrier Islands Region Ecological Characterization written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kayaking the Texas Coast written by John Whorff and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Few experiences compare with navigating a sea kayak through a large sandy bay lined with oyster-shell beaches, past golden sand dunes into rough ocean waters, then surfing back onto a wind-swept beach at sunset.”—from the Introduction Half of the nearly 400-mile Texas coastline is flanked by barrier islands. Behind them, large and small bays shelter estuarine marshes, oyster-reef communities, and sea grass meadows that teem with wildlife, creating a bird watcher's and angler's paradise. For an intimate encounter with these natural treasures, no other water craft can compare to a kayak. Veteran kayaker John Whorff’s Kayaking the Texas Coast is an essential guide for beginning and experienced kayakers to the many miles of shoreline that surround the shallow bays, lagoons, and islands of the Texas coast. Novices will appreciate this book’s detailed information about where to paddle and camp, what to see, and where to obtain additional information about safety and route planning. Accomplished kayakers will enjoy Whorff’s enticing route descriptions and other pertinent details on paddling the Texas coastline. Opening with an extended introductory text that covers kayaks and equipment, safety considerations and emergencies, camping dos and don’ts, and helpful resources, Kayaking the Texas Coast also lists useful websites and guidebooks. In the main portion of the text, the coast is organized into ten destinations, from the Galveston Bay complex in the north to Boca Chica State Park in the south. For each of these destinations, Whorff provides information on navigational aids, planning considerations, accommodations, and directions to launch sites before describing various paddling routes within each destination—around seventy routes in all. Each route is ranked for difficulty as “beginner,” “intermediate,” or “advanced.” Detailed maps and vivid photographs by the author complete the package. "Kayaking the Texas Coast is your must-have guidebook to the coastline and bays of the Lone Star State. Many miles of sea kayaking adventure are described, along with maps and discussion of the natural world encountered along the way. My copy will be riding in car and kayak with me. I look forward to seeing with my own eyes what the author has described and mapped."-- Natalie Wiest, founder and director, Galveston Bay Information
Download or read book Flyfisher s Guide to the Texas Gulf Coast written by Colby Sorrells and published by Wilderness Adventures Press. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Flyfishers Guide to the Texas Gulf Coast is the definitive guide book on fishing the Texas Coast. Interest in fishing the gulf coast is exploding and the Flyfisher’s Guide to the Texas Gulf Coast gives you all the information you need for success. Nationally known author and saltwater flyfisher, Colby Sorrells, covers every aspect of saltwater fishing for the entire Texas Coast. He covers the fish, the flies, light tackle, tactics, and the best seasons. Colby covers the entire coast in detail with information on each specific area. He lists the fly shops, outfitters, charter captains, marinas, accommodations, and much more. There are 60 detailed maps showing every bay, cover, harbor, reef, island, park, marina, and boat launch. There are also seasonal fishing charts showing the peak seasons for each species of fish. This book is essential reading for everyone who fishes the great Texas Gulf Coast.
Download or read book La Bah a Del Esp ritu Santo written by James Victor Woodrick and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book La Bah a Del Esp ritu Santo written by James Woodrick and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-10 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first European explorer to skirt the coast of the northern Gulf of Mexico gave the name "Espíritu Santo" to the continent's greatest river whose fresh water discharge he observed on the Catholic Feast Day of the Holy Spirit in 1519. A century and a half later, both Spain and France recognized the strategic importance of a settlement at the mouth of the Mississippi, but had only a vague idea of its location along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico known then as "La Florida." Cabeza de Vaca lived here as a slave of the local Indians in the 1530's. Events in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries associated with the lands and waters called Espíritu Santo shaped the history of North America. France moved first to establish a permanent presence in the area with an ill-fated expedition headed by La Salle in 1684 that only lasted four years before being destroyed by disease and Karankawa Indians. Spain responded quickly after learning of the French settlement, locating the abandoned site in 1689. A Spanish presidio and mission were established in 1722 near Lavaca Bay which moved inland four years later to the Guadalupe River north of Victoria, where it remained until 1749. The charter of the "La Bahía" mission and presidio complex was to monitor the coastal area and defend it against foreign encroachment while converting the Karankawa, Aranama and other local Indian tribes to Christianity. Victoria, Calhoun and adjacent counties along the central Texas coast constitute an area in which the earliest chapters of Texas history were experienced and recorded. Events in this region during the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century had a profound influence on the evolution of Texas, Mexico and the United States. "La Bahía del Espíritu Santo" was the name applied by the Spanish in the mid-1500's to this region - the name remains today in two places: the reconstructed La Bahía mission and presidio in Goliad, and in Espíritu Santo Bay on the coast.
Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment and Monitoring of Texas Coastal Finfish Resources written by Gary C. Matlock and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Investigation of Unusual Mortalities of Bottlenose Dolphins Along the Mid Texas Coastal Bay Ecosystem During 1992 written by Anita Ann Colbert and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fishing the Texas Gulf Coast written by Mike Holmes and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas offers tremendous angling opportunities—and its nearly 400-mile coast along the “Mediterranean of the Americas” offers everything from flounder, speckled trout, redfish, and other species inshore, to kingfish, cobia, and blue-water big game offshore. In this all new addition to The Lyons Press's Regional Fishing Series, Mike Holmes provides information on top fishing locations, as well as advice on tackle, baits and lures, best fishing times, and fishing strategies.
Download or read book Final Environmental Statement Shell Dredging in San Antonio Bay Texas written by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Galveston District and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Esp ritu Santo de Z iga written by Tamra Lynn Walter and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2009 In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Spanish colonial mission Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga was relocated from far south Texas to a site along the Guadalupe River in Mission Valley, Victoria County. This mission, along with a handful of others in south Texas, was established by the Spaniards in an effort to Christianize and civilize the local Native American tribes in the hopes that they would become loyal Spanish citizens who would protect this new frontier from foreign incursions. With written historical records scarce for Espíritu Santo, Tamra Walter relies heavily on material culture recovered at this site through a series of recent archaeological investigations to present a compelling portrait of the Franciscan mission system. By examining findings from the entire mission site, including the compound, irrigation system, quarry, and kiln, she focuses on questions that are rarely, if ever, answered through historical records alone: What was daily life at the mission like? What effect did the mission routine have on the traditional lifeways of the mission Indians? How were both the Indians and the colonizers changed by their frontier experiences, and what does this say about the missionization process? Walter goes beyond simple descriptions of artifacts and mission architecture to address the role these elements played in the lives of the mission residents, demonstrating how archaeology is able to address issues that are not typically addressed by historians. In doing so, she presents an accurate portrait of life in South Texas at this time. This study of Mission Espíritu Santo will serve as a model for research at similar early colonial sites in Texas and elsewhere.
Download or read book Cooperative Gulf of Mexico Estuarine Inventory and Study Texas written by Richard A. Diener and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Texas Section Main Channel and Tributary Channels Maintenance Dredging written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Early Explorations and Mission Establishments in Texas written by Edward Werner Heusinger and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
