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TEXAS COAST AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

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These photographs are copyrighted and are the property of Richard L. Watson. They may not be copied or used without permission. You may however link to this website from your website or by email.

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Read the following paper for much more information about the Texas coast.

Coastal Law and the Geology of a Changing Shoreline, March 2006, updated to include section on poor beach and dune management practices

Click here to download 1884 chart of Aransas Pass, Aransas Bay and Cedar Bayou (2MB).

Wikipedia History of Port Aransas and Aransas Pass

1887 Chart of Aransas Pass

Aransas Pass Entrance 1887

Aransas Pass, Lydia Ann Channel, Corpus Christi Bayou and Morris and Cummings Cut 1887

There was no direct shipping channel from Port Aransas to Corpus Christi. Ships would enter the relatively deep Aransas Pass, located across from the light house and proceed north to an anchorage NE of Harbor Island at Quarantine Shore. There they offloaded to small shallow draft "lighters" which proceeded through Corpus Christi Bayou, a natural channel, and then Morris and Cummings Cut, a dredged channel, to enter Corpus Christi Bay. Creation of the deep and direct channel from Aransas Pass at Port Aransas to Corpus Christi captured virtually all of the tidal flow in and out of Corpus Christi Bay and the natural process of longshore drift carrying hundreds of thousands of cubic yards of sand across the entrance of Corpus Christi Pass closed it. Lake Padre is a remnant of the original Corpus Christi Pass. See the Packery Channel photo sections for 1887 maps of Corpus Christi Pass.