Galveston

While my Mom was visiting in early March, Sweetie and I took her for a day trip to Galveston.
I took a lot of pictures and I'm going to post them in groups.
These are the shrimp boats in the Pier 19 area. When the boats have been out fishing and then come in to the pier the air is full of birds looking for scraps thrown overboard. We used to sit in an upstairs dining room nearby and watch the fishermen clean their haul and the birds dive to get the scraps. The place where we ate was taken down -- I don't know if it was a hurricane or just a new building needed. There didn't seem to be any shrimpers fishing the day we were there.


These birds, mostly pelicans and cormorants, are waiting to see if there will be shrimp scraps. I'm afraid they may go away hungry.

An American White Pelican above and a cormorant (I think) below.

Another American White Pelican.