At 11:28 AM 12/8/2008, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The boaters & prices in TX -LA can't be beat. They haven't outlawed >anchoring or living aboard like the state & local governments in FL have. >Here in FL, they would prefer you just sent them your money & stayed away. >It is amazing! > >The problems are not any of those things you mentioned (bugs, gators, snakes >etc). We have most, if not more of them in FL too. The problems are the >nasty muddy water, the climate (except extreme south TX) & all the >industries that use the waterways as their personal sewers. Nothing like >the smell of an oil refinery, first thing in the morning. Of course to many, >it smells like money.
True, but the pollution thing is pretty much everywhere. I remember years ago diving in Pensacola Bay and the area. 30 - 40 foot visibility and lots of "wildlife". Now 3 - 4 foot is the norm. 100 foot in the Keys and now 15 foot, with areas once filled with coral and fish now looking like an underwater desert. LA and TX do have muddy water except for offshore. So much for grabbing a pole gun and getting lunch! Yes lots of skinny water, but again that's true for FL. As you mentioned there are lots of well dredged channels, unlike FL. By climate I guess you mean the humidity. Luckily all the water in the air keeps my vestigial gills in good shape! HA! I haven't seen too much gunk from the oil industry in LA. It seems to be pretty localized. Don't know about TX, but guess we'll find out. Here at the Port of Iberia, it used to be relatively clean, but in the past year it seems there are a lot of "accidents". We had lots of catfish, mullet and turtles we used to feed, and even a friendly 6-foot water snake. You could cast net for reds and specs at sundown. Now there's nothing much except for seagulls. The powers that be won't admit there's a problem. Re Delcambre. You only have to let the city know if you're going to stay there on a more or less permanent basis. Re Port Lavaca. From a March 2008 article in Texas Parks and Life magazine: [] To Save a Bay Once hobbled by mercury pollution, Lavaca Bay is now brimming with life. From Polluter to Partner Alcoa has spent about $110 million on projects to offset injuries to fish and wildlife and to compensate for losses of recreational fishing in Lavaca Bay. Rick S/V Valkyrie _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
