The high winds and tides last week caused us some more damage. This section of bulkhead calved off behind 108. Another large piece is already missing from behind 102. These will cost many thousands to repair unless we can come up with some other clever way to take care of them. Both are only cosmetic.
Below a section of real estate behind the bulkhead behind 308 has washed out. It's hard to tell, but the deepest parts are about 3 feet deep.

The mild winter and April showers have the plants in full bloom.  The hibiscus above in behind 706 and the cacti are blooming just across the HEB fence.

The clogged sewer came back Friday evening. Danielle held the light while Jerry worked away. It took three hours to break things loose.

How is this for a nice catch? These guests went to the north jetty at Port A and brought back this load on Saturday morning.

Lina got to use the sewer snake for the first time today. Jerry talked to her on the phone to tell her how to get started. She sounded surprised to find what she pulled out to unblock the line. Clumps of long hair and baby wipes are not uncommon and lead to most blockages.

The recent high tides and high winds have built a shell seawall for HEB.  The shell seawall is spilling over our newly built concrete seawall. From the looks you would think this shell wall would last a while, but what the water brings in, it takes back. I've seen this before. Some high tides deposit shell while others take it away in no time. We ofter get deposition at this time of the year when the oyster boats have torn up the reefs and left a lot of loose shell.

Another casualty of the spring winds was our rope that holds our flags. Jerry had to climb all the way up to the top of the pole to thread through a new rope. Climbing ladders is not one of Jerry's favorite things, but we had little choice.

Thirty feet of new bulkhead were poured last Monday at a cost of nearly $8,000.

Before the concrete could set up, some of it started to leak through to the bay.

By Friday everything seemed to be set up and totally repaired. Then when the tide came up on Saturday, the high tide started to wash out some of our real estate again. This was not part of the new bulkhead, but it was said to have been repaired because we were having washouts in this area. Back to the drawing board. More money!
At the top of the this picture you can see shell being washed up and over the new part of the bulkhead. Our new 30 feet of bulkhead is now down to about 8 feet to go until we need to add some more.

The recent rains combined with the spring tides have raised water levels to seasonal highs. Here we see the beach nearly completely submerged. The crossbridge is under water in some parts too.

 The spring tides are finally bringing in some fish. The mitigation site has been yielding some reds and here Pete Velasquez shows a nice trout he landed off the big pier. The fish was pretty heavy and Pete allowed his rod to bend over the pier railing and it broke in half, but he still got his fish.

We have a new owner for 407. They are closing today. They are Matthew & Sarah Vuskov of Angleton Texas. They have young twin boys Matthew Jr. and Micah.
We will also have new owners for 603 by the end of the month. They are Allen & Pattie Cryer from Marble Falls.

Work began week before last on extending the bulkhead. We had to pay AEP to send out a truck to hold the utility pole straight while the shoreguard was being water jetted into place. They said it would be $900 for six hours, but we used only two. I don't know if they meant a minimum of 6 hours.

The shoreguard is in place and formed up awaiting the pour of concrete next week to finish it up.

This is the third time Jerry has had to rebury the water line feeding the fish cleaning stand on the pier. Somehow it works its way well above the surface. Lina hired Pedro to do the digging this time and Jerry cut a section out and glued it back again. This time he put it under the rebar that secures the bulkhead. That better work.

Jerry has been working on leveling the finger piers on the south end of our property. They were not built properly and are sinking and buckling. He took off all the surface boards and is having to cut blocks of 10" x 10" to put on top of the original posts to raise them up to attach to the superstructure.