Stephanie Boyd

Stephanie Boyd

Blue Buttons

As I sit down to write my final words for this magazine, my heart is filled with a myriad of...

Blue Dragon

The blue dragon, Glaucus atlanticus, is a type of mollusk, or sea slug, known as a nudibranch. These are shell-less...

Salps

Salps are semi-transparent barrel-shaped zooplankton resembling jellyfish. However, despite the resemblance, salps are in a separate phylum from jellyfish, their...

Black-Necked Stilt

Five species of similar-looking stilts are recognized in the genus Himantopus. They have the second-longest legs in proportion to their...

Ghost Shrimp

Ghost shrimp are small, soft, and translucent crustaceans of the intertidal zone. Despite what their name and appearance suggest though,...

Killdeer

Killdeer are small shorebirds who do not, in fact, kill deer. Their name is a reference to the sound of...

Purple Storm Snail

Janthinidae are a family of holoplanktonic sea snails (they live in the water column for their entire life cycle and...

Brittle Stars

With over 2000 described species, Ophiuroidea is the largest class of living echinoderms, found in all oceans from intertidal to...

Bridled Tern

Bridled terns are medium-sized tropical terns, with long, slender wings and a deeply forked tail. They reach a little over...

Humpback Whale

"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with...

Gulf Coast Kitchen

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Recipe of the month

Isle of Matagorda Baked Flounder Premium

This delightful creation comes from the kitchen of Brent Hart at Hurricane Junction in Port O’Connor. Flounder is regarded as...

Isle of Matagorda Baked Flounder

Shrimp Po-Boy Sliders with Remoulade Slaw

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