Yesterday...by Judy

Yesterday dawned muggy but by the time I got back from my walk, there was a strong wind coming from the north and it cooled down rapidly. We did some grocery shopping and necessary stuff in the AM and then decided to go out to lunch and then hit the shops in downtown Rockport. We headed to another waterfront restaurant here in Fulton Beach and enjoyed our lunch very much at Alice Fayes. We liked the first place a bit better but this was really very good also. I had shrimp salad again which this time was mixed up already and placed on a bed of lettuces and other good veggies. Mike had blackened tilapia which was wonderful...as was mine! By the time we left, it was really windy and chilly...gray and spitting rain. We decided to check out a couple of the local museums instead of wandering around downtown. We did go to a couple of shops but then went to the Texas Maritime Museum in Rockport. Rockport and Fulton are really almost one town. It was small but neat. We learned about LaSalle who came here in the 1600's from France and lost all his ships and his life here. They found one ship in Matagorda Bay just north of here and excavated it. Found lots of artifacts and human remains on board. We watched a video which explained about the excavation....very interesting. There were also interesting excepts from a diary of a woman whose family came here in the early 1880's and whose ship ran aground and many of her family died of disease. Rough for the early people here! There were also displays about the boating, shipbuilding and fishing. It was neat.



Then we went to the Rockport aquarium...which was very small...not much to it....just starting out. But a very nice lady who took a shine to us, gave a satellite map of the area "suitable for framing!". It was a nice way to spend a blustery day!