Our early exit from Rayburn leaves a couple days for gulf shore time.  Another cold front brings us rain and wind for our travel day.  If you are a rough seas fan this is a day for it.  On-shore winds put waves clear up to the boardwalks.  We relax and stay close to home this evening.

Morning is much calmer and drier.  Fishing trawlers bob not far off-shore.  Pelicans glide in to feed in the gulf. We check out a couple trails (many have standing water).  A breeze keeps woodland birds in hiding but waders are out.  The highlight is roseate spoonbills, one on the wing and one feeding nearby.  We come upon a bronze statue of an eskimo curlew, now extinct last seen here on Galveston Island in 1962.  It is part of Todd McGrain’s  “Lost Bird Project” to memorialize species that have become extinct due to human impacts.