Some entries were entirely covert.
GWBCO
Some cooked on stainless steel.
GWBCO
The first annual Gulf Waters Barbecue Cook-Off. Guys chose up sides and created teams. Each team split off to cook their meat. Some teams cooperated and shared space on traditional facilities.
Sunday
We finished the Port Aransas tour with Matt yesterday. We took him to the other birding site in town, the birding center (at the water treatment plant), and we took him to the dump (to do some recycling). Today we had to let him go back to Colorado. Mostly we just hung around the patio and the beach. Matt got to meet all the people while he was here, and he made friends with the pond turtles as well. He got one to come all the way up out of the water.
Friday
Picked up Matt from the airport yesterday. This is so cool. Our daughter visited us here on the island in December. Now our son is here for the weekend in March. The Corpus Christi Airport is simple. It’s not like DIA in Denver. Departures are on the lower level. Arrivals on the upper level. You go up the escalator and there is the concourse. The gates are numbered; one through six. You don’t really even need a gate number. From the top of the escalator you can see every gate. Checking the screen for arrivals to see if his flight was on time, every single flight for the day was on one screen. Every single flight for the day was also from Dallas or Houston. That’s it. No checked bags. An easy walk out. Here’s how small the airport is: from the top of the escalator to go back down to ground level, you can look out the window into the parking lot and see the car. No train. No shuttle required. No sir. Not like DIA in Denver. We’re showing Matt the sights. We drove down the beach. We drove past Horace Caldwell Pier and watched porpoises and sea turtles at the ship channel. We showed him black skimmers at Jetty Beach. We’ve been to the marina park, the ferry landing, Paradise Pond, and dinner at Juan’s. Coffee on the patio this morning. A walk on the beach. He can do this.