No, that is not a throng of people enjoying the first day of May at the newly restored beach at Lake Wichita, restored after recent downpours of lake restoring water, raised the lake's level to almost normal.
It took me a moment or two to remember what this Microsoft OneDrive Memory from this Day was.
Galveston.
On the Texas Gulf Coast.
Galveston is just about the best tourist type town I've been to in Texas.
As you approach the island, on the bridge connected to the mainland, you see large pyramids of various colors. That was the first surprising thing. Later to be learned the pyramids are part of the Moody Gardens complex.
When I got to the gulf side of the island, I quickly found a place to park. As soon as I exited my vehicle I was hit with two things I had not experienced since I was last in Washington. The smell of saltwater. And the sound of waves.
I think it was soon after smelling that saltwater smell and hearing those crashing waves that I saw the throng of people playing in the water.
The water did not look too inviting, to me. It looked murky, muddy, dirty.
I later that day learned the quality of the water was being affected by the Spring runoff of the Mississippi River draining dirty river water into the gulf.
I had my evening feeding that day in a seafood restaurant on a pier out over the water. This marked the first time since I had been in Texas that I eye witnessed people eating bowls of crawdads, looking to me like they were biting off the heads of the reddish insect looking things and then sucking out the contents.
I have had many opportunities since to avail myself of the crawdad delicacy. I have not succumbed to the temptation...
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