Crossing Starr County
Friday, September 26, 2008
I accompanied Dr. Paull, Dr. Wilson, and students on a field trip across Starr County yesterday. While it was officially a "Geology" and "Cultural Geography" trip, I think the focus leaned more heavily on apertures and focal lengths. The Doctors are both shutter bugs and well, you know me, so it was a fun trip.
We started out at the Los Ebanos Ferry, which is the last hand-drawn ferry on the Rio Grande, and then moved west to the Santa Cruz Cross in Rio Grande City. After lunch at Caro's we continued westward to Roma, first at the bluffs and then town square. While it was a lazy day in Roma, Mexico was quick to scramble a helicopter after seeing our group aiming big lenses on tripods at the city of Miguel Aleman. They circled several times as Dr. Paull obliviously framed his shots, luckily no confrontations were had.
From Roma we continued upriver to the Santa Margarita Ranch for its stunning view and on to Salineno for the cool shade and river access.
For now here is one picture I took of the Ferry, more to come later (maybe!).
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Creepy Crawly Valley
Friday, September 19, 2008
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Sunset on the Bahia
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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Ike-a-rumba!
Hurricane Ike swept across the gulf this weekend making landfall along the upper coast of Texas. Remarkably little impact was felt here in the Valley, little to no rain and insignificant winds. The one thing that we did get was storm surge, which in its own respect was very impressive. Several people found their vehicles stranded on the beach Thursday night as Ike pushed the gulf waters right up to them. By Friday morning the Gulf was flowing freely across the North end of the Island and into the bay at all of our "beach access points." It really makes you appreciate a continuous line of sand dunes, keeping the inner island--our homes--safe from the rising waters.
Of course, with heavy surf, comes surfers!
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Birds, Butterflies, and Bulls
Monday, September 1, 2008
Ran up to the Western end of the Valley this weekend to photograph the only (blood-less) Bull Fighting ring in the states. On the way I shot some flutter-bys and some birdies too... here are a few shots, I'll (hopefully) post more later.
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