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Three Arches! Inside the Moon Parrotheads A2 Biz Briefs A9 Fishing A11 Beauty on the Beach A12 Live Music A16 Issue 895 The 27° 37' 0.5952'' N | 97° 13' 21.4068'' W Photo by Debbie Noble Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 June 10, 2021 Weekly www.islandmoon.com FREE By the numbers Three Arches! Memorial Day Weekend Editor’s note: The following numbers were presented to the By Dale Rankin Corpus Christi City Council by The summer heat crept in from the the CEO of the Corpus Christi Wild Horse Desert this week and Visitors Bureau Bret Oetting in its gave us a hint of what is coming meeting on Tuesday, June 8. The when summer officially kicks in two numbers regarding hotel price and weeks from now. Temperatures are occupancy do not include up and so are the numbers of people Short-Term rentals. coming OTB. Using the Port Aransas ferry has pretty much been removed 150,000 visitors to Corpus from the list of options for Islanders Christi area during Memorial heading OTB these days as the wait Day Weekend times in both directions even on 18,500 Average number of weekdays stretch to an hour or more. vehicles per hour arriving over What used to be considered holiday the JFK Causeway traffic is now Wednesday traffic. 40,000 pounds of beach trash Water Exchange Bridge picked up The last two arches in the northbound 1656 Beach Permits sold side of the Water Exchange Bridge 16,400 Visitors to Texas State went up this week giving us a glimpse Three arches on the North bbound lane side of the Water Exchange Bridge are now in place of what the final structure will look Aquarium (most ever in a single like. While we continue to hear from weekend) the Drive By Bridge Designers this Length of stay week that the 14 feet of clearance for boats is not high enough as you can 1.97 days Average stay see from the photos on this page that 2.58 Average length of stay is two and a half feet higher than the (nights) highest bridge leading to the Water Exchange Bridge from the canals. As 52.6% of visitors are daytrippers we have said before if your boat can’t 39.8% of visitors stay 1-3 nights make it under a 14 foot bridge we can only envy you. 6.2% of visitors stay 4-7 nights 1.4% 8-plus nights Lifeguard shortage Hotels $194 Average rental rate/stay increase from 2019 The bridge on Whitecap Boulevard over the The Gypsy Bridge over the east end of the Main $138 Increase in average Island Cruiser canal has 11 feet of clearance above the Canal has 10.5 feet clearance above the waterline. hotel room nightly cost over waterline. 2019 The second and third arches on the of the canal were placed on Monday the northbound lane is on schedule to 59.2% Hotel occupancy rate Emergency crews aid a man Island Water Exchange Bridge were and Tuesday. be finished by the end of 2021 and the Thursday new roadway will be used as a detour who died of medical problems put in place this week. The center Project foreman Mike Franklin said 75% Hotel occupancy rate while the bridge on the southbound on the beach this week even as arch which spans the waterway has the next step in the process will be to Friday lane is under construction. The entire the nearby lifeguard station was been up for several weeks and the place the walls on the embankments project is scheduled for completing 92.9% Hotel occupancy rate unmanned. two adjacent arches to cover the leading to the bridge which will begin by the end of 2022. Saturday pedestrian and cart paths on each side in the next few weeks. The stricter on City officials said this week they are raising the pay for beach lifeguards in an effort to cover a shortage of 16 ISAC update Island Blast! lifeguards to meet the desired staffing level of 44. If you know someone Packery Channel Repair Funding Off Road Vehicles over 18 looking for a summer job at Fourth $15 per hour call the city. Lifeguard Shortage And then there’s this… By Dale Rankin of July A decision on how to fund $15 Young told ISAC members in a two “We got caught in a loophole,” million in repairs to the Packery and a half hour meeting Tuesday Young said. “The city had to go to the Fireworks Channel jetty system may be headed that funding was held up as officials Corps first and that application was to the Corpus Christi City Council at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, moving forward until they found a according to Assistant City Manager who designed, built and funded the rule that said that they could not fund Are On! Neiman Young. jetties in 2005, decided on whether the repairs.” the organization would pay for After a year hiatus due to the COVID In 2017 wind driven water Young said that since the Corps lockdown the eighth annual Island the repairs. Young said that Corps issued the letter matter now is fully in rushing toward the Gulf of Mexico officials last month issued a letter Blast Fireworks Show will take to the destroyed much of the jetty structure, the hands of the Federal Emergency sky on Sunday, July 4. stating that the fund which originally Management Agency. particularly on the south side of the paid for the jetties cannot legally pay Event organizer Fred Edler said channel causing it to collapse setting for the repairs and issued a letter to Wednesday that the show will start off a scramble to find funding for that effect. ISACcont. on A4 shortly after sunset in the property There is no news item here but a repairs. at the west end of Whitecap. The reader sent us this photo of the drug show is paid for with donations from incinerator at Padre Island National Islanders and each year thousands of Seashore and we thought it was A little Island history Islanders and non-Islanders gather on interesting. This is where square fish go to be cooked. Just a reminder that while we go about our daily lives The Island Seagate Around The Island we do in fact By Dale Rankin live smack dab in the middle of a smuggling lane. For most of its life it has been a rusty and concrete canvas for Dog Park update taggers, it has been a hangout for Construction of the Riley P. Dog late night partiers, often a hazard Park at the west end of Whitecap has for boaters, and the subject of stalled as plans for the driveway and much curiosity and speculation. IslandBlast! parking area make their way through But the Seagate between Packery the city regulators. The recent rains Channel and Lake Padre is about to Fire in the sky on sprung up a forest of weeds and a relic of the Island’s past, at least the Fourth of July flowers but the good news is that once in its current configuration. the flowers are removed the rains also Thirty years ago when brought in groundcover that will Westinghouse Financial owned decks and streets to watch the show allow the park to be usable while the more than 1000 acres on Padre which lasts about twenty minutes. permitting process goes on. It won’t Island they decided to try to slow be long… We will have public viewing down any surge tide from an locations, both from the street side We’ve made it through the first incoming hurricane by building a and from the water, in the next few couple of weeks of Hurricane Season concrete structure at the entrance weeks as plans are set but what we 2021 unscathed so keep your fingers to Lake Padre that would hold four The four iron gates still stand vigil on the west side of the channel can say for certain is that come the crossed everybody, and say hello if History cont. on A4 entrance awaiting the deployment that never came. 4th of July there will be fire in the you see us Around The Island. Island sky. June 10, 2021 Island Moon A 2 Parrotheads "Party With a Purpose" Photo by Evelyn Pless-Schuberth NEW YORK STYLE & HOME OF THE GIANT SLICE PADRE ISLAND SOUTHSIDE 15326 S. 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They started with a Bloody Mary bar, fierce corn hole competition, cooler decorating contest, shark super soakers, a bar hopping, golf carting, poker run, and ended the evening with a BBQ dinner, giant booze wagon raffle, and live music with Kelly McGuire, complete with dancing and a conga line.
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