Does anyone remember fishing pier on Bolivar Peninsula (Galveston) right by the ferry boat?

Dirty Pelican or Meacom?

 

You're probably talking about the north jetty. It's still there. As soon as you get off the ferry, make a right at I believe 12th street. There's a bait shack there also. If you turned too early make a left once you've turned right off 12th at the last road to get to the jetty. If you over shot it, make a right at last road to get there. Either way, if you've gone past 20th you've gone too far.

 

Yeah, I'm getting thrown off by the "just close to ferry" comment. OP was a little kid though

I'm thinking his dad is correct that it was destroyed, since all the piers were. And OP is just thinking it's "just close" to ferry stop. Hence Pelican or Meacom???

Or maybe he's thinking of Flagship Hotel pier on other side?

 

There is a great pier in Sea Wolf Park on the Galveston side of the Ferry too.

 

it's ferry landing, any there are no public fishing piers on bolivar side, just north jetty.

 

both long gone I believe.

 

yeah, that's the point of the OP question. We are trying to name the piers that Ike destroyed, to help OP remember the one his dad used to take him to in the '90s as a kid.

 

Anyone ever been dive bombed by nesting seagulls at San Luis Pass? About a million years ago, when we were waiting for it to get dark so we could go gigging for flounder (which is fun as hell - watch out for holes and tidal streams and stuff), a couple of friends and I went strolling on one of the sandy beach areas that went into the bay a bit back then. Had no clue that they were nesting areas. This was back in the 1960's. All of a sudden, hordes of seagulls attacked us. Know what they do? They dive at you, screaming all the time, and drop poop bombs. Thank god, I had a wide brimmed straw hat that I could rinse off in the water.

Had great luck that night getting flounder. Nothing like fresh caught flounder cooked on the beach. If anyone tries gigging, be sure to notice the difference between flounder mostly covered with sand on the bottom, and a stingray. They look very similar, but you figure out the difference after almost stepping on 2 or 3 of them. Gigging in the middle of the night out in shallow water, under a canopy of stars and surrounded largely by silence, is a trip and a half. Peaceful and exciting, as only night fishing can be.

 

Is Galveston a thing now? They have HGTV shows out of Galveston. I swear if the water cleared up a tiny bit, Galveston could be such a bad ass place.

 

40-50 years ago, the water was, and more than a tiny bit. Back in the '50's, the beaches they have to replenish today were huge and sometimes the water was damned clear. It was rare at Stewart, but happened. West Beach and San Luis was much clearer. "Progress" is not always a good thing, not by a long shot.

 

A good substitute is rollover pass. Just drive 10 miles more and your there.

 

thats what she said

 

Won't happen.

The color has nothing to do with pollution but rather natural geology. The sand composition of the beach and island has relatively high levels of silt and mud compared to Florida. This is due to the source of the river deposits that created the island 5,000 yrs ago. Also much of the sand is from oyster shell vs quartz, relatively speaking vs Florida which is coming from limestone.

We just get a bad rap, because the finer silt and mud in the system, and oyster shell color of some of the sand stays suspended in the wave action and makes the water naturally murky similar to a mud bottom river vs a rocky bottom river.

 

I've always loved Galveston, even more so post-Ike when certain parts got rebuilt. The fishing is always strong, great places to eat, the charming historic district and St. Mary's Cathedral. It's actually all the non-beach aspects of Galveston that I enjoy the most. If you are there when a cruise is docked you see a lot more people out exploring the town, it almost feels like a tourist city. If you're in Houston, it's a great way to change up the atmosphere on the weekends without having to go too far.

 

SCIENCE b****!