From the Texas Month-to-month’s archives.
Practically within reach of the huge Dow Chemical Firm complicated in Freeport is the place the place the New Brazos River empties into the Gulf of Mexico. It’s referred to as new as a result of the river’s course has been altered a bit to suit man’s wants. Down the rutted seashore, households play, bikinis blossom, and path bikes kick up sand. On the west facet of the river, an extended, abandoned seashore stretches out towards Sargent, accessible solely by boat. As soon as, the mouth of the river was a well-known spot to fish for tarpon, spectacular silver fish that may develop bigger than a person. At present there aren’t any tarpon there or at Port Aransas, and only some down the coast at Corpus Christi and Port Isabel. Nobody is aware of why the fish have disappeared.
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