First, while sitting in Moon Dog's, drinking a Shiner Bock (top of the line from a Texas brewery) and eating sweet potatoe fries, I snapped a picture of the new, modern shrimp fleet. There is a lot of oyster harvesting here too, and the fleet is equally niceeeee. (Ooops, after looking at the picture in it's reduced size in this post, you can't see that my comment is tongue in cheek, the fleet is a bit weather worn)
We took a little drive out onto Allegro Key, where the poor live. As you can see, this is a poverty stricken area. I saw three lots still available (all lots are on waterways). I'm guessing, because it is such a depressed area you could pick one up for a song. On yeah, speaking of songs, George Strait (country singer) has a house here.
Now this little gem is off the market, as it was snapped up in the 1970's by the state department of parks. It has been restored to its 1877 glory and is available for tours, which of course we did.The house was built by George Ware Fulton. He started it in 1874 and completed it in 1877. It was so well built that it has survived 6 (or maybe it was 8) direct hits by hurricanes. George, you see, had many jobs during his early years, including bridge building. He was part of the engineering team that built the first suspension bridge between Lexington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio (still in use today). He was offered a job on the team that built the Brooklyn bridge, but turned it down so he could return to Texas.
Like this view? It is the view from George Fulton's front porch. I think I could take it, as long as someone else paid the property tax bill. Originally it rested on 60 acres of beach front property, but only about 2 acres of that remain undeveloped.Well, y'all, we are movin' on tomorrow. More to come in a few days from a more northerly spot.
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