To Each His Own
I had a really rare and pleasant treat recently. I got stuck in a doctors office waiting room for five...
Billy Sandifer
Capt. Billy is a local fishing guide, birder, & conservationist on the Texas barrier island "Padre Island." He focuses on improving conservation of natural resources and enjoys spreading his knowledge to others. He is known as the "Padre of Padre Island", and has organized the local "The Big Shell Beach Clean Up" for 14 years. He has received the Conservation & Environmental Stewardship Award by the Coastal Bend Bays Foundation.
The Perfect Day
The finger mullet migration from the bay systems to the surf is not a mass movement that occurs in one...
Karma
The phone rang and as I looked at the caller ID I smiled when I saw it was Ms. Wanda...
The Passing of the Torch and “Riding Fence” for Friends of Padre
I never for one split second of my life dreamed that Id live to be this old or ever retire....
The Passing of the Greatest Generation
The silver Dodge with a camper shell slowly ground to a stop as it approached my Suburban. We greeted each...
Only the Good Die Young, Releasing Sharks, and Beach Water Temperatures
We all know a great many people but in my experience it is rare to meet someone who quickly brushes...
Midnight Express Part II – The Rest of the Story
Several years before a freighter had sank in the Windward Passage and the survivors made their way to Gitmo on...
Midnight Express
I spent three tours of duty (total 4.5 years) in our military stationed down at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - the...
This one is for Joy, and the men who fought at Belleau Woods
I rarely sleep at night anymore so some weeks back I pretty much quit trying. For the most part I...
“Retreat, Hell…We Just Got Here!”
The above line from the sci-fi movie Battlefield Los Angeles describes last Saturday's Seventeenth Annual Big Shell Beach Cleanup better...
