Irrigation System to Stop Sand Blowing
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Inside the Moon Pop-up Gallery Opening A2 May P.I.B.A Mixer A2 The Truth About Palms A6 Babes on the Bay A8 Live Music A18 Issue 683 The Island Free The voiceMoon of The Island since 1996 May 18, 2017 Weekly FREE Photo by Teri Beck Around The New Record Island for Nesting Sea By Dale Rankin The rain on Wednesday gave us a Turtles respite from the blowing sand on our little sandbar. We Islanders don’t High Winds bring need a secret handshake to identify each other on our trips OTB. We them ashore know each other by our Dustbowl A new state record was set on Hack. Where’s Woody Guthrie when Tuesday when 43 Kemp’s ridley nests you need him? were found in Texas, including 28 at Litter Critter lineup Padre Island National Seashore, 6 on South Padre Island, 4 on North Padre Island north of Padre Island National Seashore, 1 on Bolivar Peninsula, 1 on Galveston Island, 1 on Surfside Beach, 1 on Mustang Island, and 1 on Boca Chica Beach. That brings the total to 236 Kemp’s ridley nests found in Texas The line for the Saturday Island this year and exceeds the previous visit of the Litter Critter backed up annual record of 209 nests found in traffic from the end of Whitecap all 2012. The 144 nests found at Padre the way back to Tesoro. We can’t say Island National Seashore exceeds if this is due to the cutback from two Brent Chesney's annual Sandcastle Run took place last Saturday. The event raise money to help send the previous annual record of 117 Litter Critter visits per month to one children with diabetes to summer camp. More on A16. Photo by Bruce Bair. Kemp’s ridley nests found there or if we Islanders are just generating during 2009 and 2011. The 14 nests more stuff that needs to be thrown Relief! found at Boca Chica Beach also out. Either way if you are taking your Fixing exceeds the previous annual record of litter to the critter be sure to give 12 nests found during 2008. yourself some traffic time. Irrigation System to Collapsed Beach to Bay And speaking of traffic the 41st Stop Sand Blowing Bulkhead annual Beach to Bay run is this By Dale Rankin first along State Highway 361 and Saturday and that means an Island Since spring winds picked up in then along SPID, which will pump traffic snarl of a few hours in the Expected to earnest several weeks ago Islanders 35,808 gallons of water per day in morning. The 26.2 mile-long event is downwind of the construction area a 36-foot radius. A special coast billed as the largest relay marathon in around Lake Padre have been feeling seed mix of grass will be spread the country and will have 2000 teams Cost $200- the effects of the fine, blowing sand. throughout the irrigated area. The this year and that means 2000 runners On Wednesday the lead developer work is being done by PureNature, taking off on the first leg which starts on the property, Paul Schexnailder, LLC., Landscape Construction $300,000 on The Island. For the second year issued his plan to deal with the Services based in New Braunfels. there is also an individual class which problem. Lack of bidders a will swell the running ranks ever The water will come from a pond Dr. Donna Shaver said the nesting further. “We know it’s a problem,” he said located near the sprinklers which will problem season could extend until mid- Wednesday, “We didn’t anticipate be fed by non-brine surface water. July, so certainly more nests will be The first leg of the event begins near By Dale Rankin this much wind and we are moving to Schexnailder said the irrigation will recorded in Texas this year. Beach Access Road 5 and is entirely deal with it.” be in place, “As soon as we can get About seventy feet of collapsed on The Island with the first team the equipment there.” Nest Count exchange point on the beach south The plan calls for a series of rotating of Bob Hall Pier. That means runners sprinkler heads place sixty feet apart, 2 Bolivar Peninsula who drive themselves will be parking 4 Galveston Island in that area. The route enters SPID/ 0 Brazoria County, N. of Surfside Park Road 22 at Access Road 6 and continues all the way to the base of 1 Surfside Beach the JFK Causeway Bridge where it 0 Quintana Beach takes the northbound side to Flour Bluff. The southbound side of the 0 Bryan Beach JFK will be one lane each way and in 0 Brazoria County, N. of Sargent past years that means a backup until Beach around 10:30 a.m. 0 Sargent Beach It kicks off at 7 a.m. and the duration of the traffic event varies from year 1 Matagorda Peninsula to year but should be cleared out well 0 Matagorda Island before noon. A tip for we Islanders; the route does not use Windward or 1 San Jose Island go north of the beach at Whitecap. 8 Mustang Island South Packery beach is free and clear if you can get there. 6 North Padre Island north of Padre Island National Seashore Sargassum seepage bulkhead on Primavera Street is 144 Padre Island National Seashore expected to cost between $200,000- We’re starting to see some 55 South Padre Island sargassum weed wash up of late. It’s Sand Blows! $300,000 to repair according to an estimate from Padre Isles Property 14 Boca Chica Beach been a couple of years since we have Sand blowing across Park Road 22 caused a fog-like effect last week a serious infestation but it looks like this may be the year as fisherpersons as winds gusted at over 35mph. Bulkheads cont. on A4 Turtles cont. on A4 have been reporting large offshore mats for several weeks. When is A little Island history someone going to figure out how to cook this stuff? Indianola was the State’s Busiest Port -- Now it’s a Ghost Town Fourth of July Fireworks By Dale Rankin California. The town that became Strange as it may sound the annual known as the Mother of Western The port town of Indianola was Fourth of July Island Blast Fireworks Texas was founded after the earlier born and died through suffering. The Display is but a mere seven weeks settlement of Matagorda, situated on town was situated near sea level on away and organizer Jerry Watkins has the left bank of the Colorado River and Matagorda Bay near Port Lavaca everything ready but is about $3800 which had the first newspaper in the from 1844-1886. During that time short of the final amount of funds state, failed due to raids by Comanche Indianola grew from a camp of needed. We’re trying to keep Jerry Indians and the development of a silt immigrants running from suffering in from having to sell pencils in the bar deposited by the river along the Europe into a cosmopolitan port city. Stripes Parking lot to raise the money narrow eastern arm of the bay which Before the first of two storms hit the so if you can help out make checks prevented the approach to Matagorda city in 1875 Indianola was regarded payable to Island Blast, addressed by ships entering the bay through as second only to Galveston in to 14890 Granada Dr. #205, or drop Pass Cavallo. Cargo had to be shifted commercial and maritime supremacy them here at the Island Moon office, to lighter vessels and ferried the final and was a threat to the older port 14646 Compass. All of the proceeds four miles of the route, which was because of Indianola’s location go directly to the show. This will expensive and tiresome. nearer to the heart of Texas, and be the fifth year for the show which points west, which were then being in only a short time has become an Politics intervenes settled my immigrant Europeans. Island tradition. Then in 1839 things changed for the Indianola was the port for trade with We’ll see you there, and in the mid-coast region of Texas when a Chihuahua and the eastern terminus meantime say hello if you see us decision was made, against the wishes Indainola, TX street scene for the shortest overland route to of Sam Houston, to move the seat of Around The Island. History cont. on A4 A2 Island Moon May 18, 2017 Water Street Gallery Grand Opening May P.I.B.A. Mixer Corpus Christi's first "Pop Up" Gallery Artist Wade Koniakowsky hangs his work prior to Thursday's grand opening of Corpus Christi's first pop-up gallery. Koniakowsky was one of three featured artists whose work focuses on surfing and surf culture. All the works are for sale, and a portion of the profits will go to support the Texas Surf Museum located next door, The May Padre Island Business association Mixer was sponsored by Compass Bay associates L.P. an Illinois limited partner company that recently purchased the Compass Bay Apartment complex and is turning them into high end privately owned condominiums. Pictured top: (from left) the new owner Bruce Kinney, Shannon Bumstead of Bumstead properties who are handling the sales of the units and David Heitzman the director of Property management. Photos below: Guests enjoy complementary food and drinksPhotos by Jan Rankin 6871 St Hwy 361 Lost Colony Unit 13 Open House Saturday, May 20th, 12:00 - 4:00 Beach Front Home with Great View in Gated Community with Pool & Boardwalk to the Beach.