Rob told me this morning that the primary objection that the GLO had to our pier project was encroachment onto seagrass beds. Later this morning a crew from Belaire Enviromental, who is doing the permit application for the pier, came out and surveyed the area around the pier. They had a GPS system, a metered stick for depth, and a large floating waste basket for the GPS backpack should the water become too deep to carry the pack on the back. They used a rather high tech device to check for oysters and seagrass. The generic term for the device is a post hole digger. They checked a grid pattern at ten foot intervals. The process took about three hours. No seagrass of any kind was found. They parked their boat on the HEB shoreline. You don't see that too often.