South Padre Bay Cam South Padre Island Texas Live Laguna Madre Bay Cam Fishing Report It is getting easier and easier to see what lies just beyond the visible eye can see. Due to awesome birding and observation parks like the one here on South Padre which gets bigger in the spring 2. Road 2. 34 just southeast of FM6. I mean. My friends at the Texas Parks and Wildlife contacted me and informed me of a new, state of the art facility that will have a grand opening on December 6th. The 1,2. 00 acre park in Brownsville is the largest of the nine sites that comprise the World Birding Center that stretches some 1. Rio Grande corridor from Roma to South Padre Island. Not a state park in the traditional sense, Resaca de la Palma caters to bird watchers, butterfly enthusiasts and other nature lovers who seek an up close view of wildlife in a natural setting that includes a restored resaca an ancient coil of a river bed once filled by Rio Grande floodwaters, marshes, dense thorn scrub, and mature palm and ebony forests. The park includes five types of habitat Tamaulipan thornscrub, ebony anacua forest, sugar hackberry woodlands, revegetated grasslands and the resaca wetlands. Park visitors must park at the visitor center and walk, bicycle or take the parks tram into the park. The tram ride is included in the required entrance fee and visitors can rent binoculars, bicycles and tricycles for an additional daily fee. Resaca de la Palma, 1. New Carmen Blvd., will have bird walks on Saturday mornings, nature walks on Wednesday mornings and occasional bike tours. For more information, call 9. Cameron County, Texas Public Records Directory Quickly find public record sources in the largest human edited public record directory. Find property records, vital. Just to recap, this grand opening will be held December 6th, 8a. To reach the park from Brownville, visitors can take FM 1. ISegtx22uq920h1000000000.jpg' alt='Laguna Vista Texas County' title='Laguna Vista Texas County' />Obituaries P The people memorialized below either lived at least part of their lives in the county or are buried here. Please contact volunteer coordinator Regena. THE TEXAS OFFICE OF COURT ADMINISTRATION Court Activity Reporting and Directory System. Full color maps of counties and regions of texas. Full color maps of counties and regions of south texas. County pages show all online feeds available that cover areas within that county. Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca previously known as Laguna Seca Raceway is a paved road racing track in central California used for both auto racing and motorcycle racing. New Carmen Boulevard. The entrance is on the east side of the boulevard. As always, be safe and see you on the water where there are lots of birds too and thanks, Bill Oliver for coming down and singing your nature songs for us. THOSE THINGS OUT THERE IN THE WATER You can go back to the 1. Initially there were mainly light houses and light house structures. While lighthouses continue to be the most. Some of the first were simply crates with a big rock tied to a chain. These were around La Compasso de Navigare. Located in the Guadalquivir River, this buoy aided mariners approaching Sevilla, Spain. Back then, the mariners had to pay a fee to use them. It would be another 2. Back then, Kings were concerned about the dangers of allowing foreigners to learn the secrets of the Kings streams. Boston Light was the first North American light house built in 1. Little Brewster Island. On Aug. 7, 1. 78. First Congress passed an act for the establishment and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers. Just another tidbit of info before I start the bilge pump, the United States didnt have a standard system until 1. Colors, shapes and sizes varied from port to port. This lack of regulation gave individual contractors free reign to. More about buoys on our next adventure of maritime rules. Until next time, be safe and see you on the water. There were many problems with the buoys and markers in the mid 1. In 1. 84. 8, they finally came up with the Lateral system. This is the system we use today. Does RED RIGHT RETURN ring a bell Even more improvement came about in 1. Lighthouse Board was created. The attempt to standardize was started. Buoys were categorized in three sizes. The larger ones for main entrances to harbors, mid sized ones for secondary approaches and smaller buoys where deeper draft ships couldnt go. This was all o. k., but what about night time The solution was not so simple. The first electrically lit buoy tested by the board was a simple spar with a lantern housing and light on top. It was used in Gedneys Channel, New York harbor in 1. A series of these were lit by a cable running to a generator on Sandy Hook, N. J. It was removed in 1. Light buoys use solar power today. Audible signal buoys were also developed. The first were simply bells with swing clangers as we have today. The Courtenays Buoy is based on the physics of air escaping under pressure from a tube through a whistle. When the buoy moves in the water, it causes water to be pushed into it which then pushes air out the other end where the whistle lies. During the early 2. The Lighthouse Services, was commissioned. George Putnam was the man in charge and was very instrumental in the change of nav aids and maintenance than any other individual before. He encouraged new buoy designs and crusaded for his employees to do the same. The advent of radio beacons on buoys made it possible for mariners to not have to see them to navigate. This became one of the most technological changes ever made to buoys. Putnam retired in 1. Congress moved the Lighthouse Service out of the Department of Commerce and incorporated it into the Coast Guard in 1. The Coast Guard did lots of experimentation during the 4. Plastic buoys were one of the main things they were working on. In 1. 96. 6, the Coast Guard began investigating the possibility of replacing lightships with Large Navigational Buoys or LNBs. They are called monster buoys having hulls up to 4. While the tools and methods of maintaining minor aids in U. S. waters changed a lot in 2. Most people even here on the island simply notice briefly a buoy rocking in the swells before turning their eyes to take a snapshot or bait their hooks and not realize the vast history behind them. As always, be safe and see you on the water. There has always been a problem in my class room with inland and international rules. There is little difference until you encounter a need to comply or make a maneuver. The international and inland rules must be interpreted with common sense. A collision between a large steel ship and a small fiberglass boat seldom results in injury on the big ship. Now I know that there arent very many large vessels in the bay, but there is a bunch in the Brownsville ship channel along with a fleet of shrimp boats. Since the large vessel is restricted in maneuverability, it has the right of way not to mention common sense to get out of the way. The speed of a larger vessel seen at a distance can be deceptive. Always be prepared to give way to it. Another thing that happens mainly in the Brownsville ship channel is the current they produce around them. A vessel proceeding along a narrow channel or fairway must stay as close as safely possibly to the starboard side and outer limit if the channel. Have you ever seen the water being sucked away from the bank as a large ship approaches in the Brownsville ship channel The water level decreases by as much as 5 ft. The rule goes on to say that a small vessel may not impede the passage of a vessel that can only navigate within the channel. If this is all confusing, then just stay way clear of all ships 4. As always be safe a see you on the water. The Boaters version of A. A. A. Here is a system that I found very interesting. It is a program started by Genmar called First Mate which gives boaters access to live information and assistance 2. The program includes Sea. Tow marine assistance service, which can send help in a hurry if you run out of fuel, have a dead battery, are lost or stuck in shallow water. They even have roadside assistance if your trailer needs something. They will even chart a course for you in their First. Scarlet Jayden Blindfold Me. Part 2. Mate program which includes GPS monitoring and Telematics Security.