Today I had a first. It was the first time I had ever taken a jetty boat to North Jetty at Port Aransas. I have fished off a jetty many times but never the North Jetty. A boat is the only way one can get there. Once you leave the jetty boat you are there for at least an hour before it returns. You can stay as long as you like. Miss the last boat and you stay all night! There is no way off except to swim. Homer Hanna and I took the trip to fish. Several other folks joined us. They pulled carts loaded with water, rods, tackle, and whatever. To go to the end of the jetty would be a mile hike. We passed on that. Another option is to get off the jetty and hike the beach on St Joseph's island. There are no vehicles, malt shops, or restrooms. This barrier island is about twenty miles long. It is owned by the Bass family.. Access to the beach is allowed, but that is all. It is a beachcomber's delight. We stayed on the jetty. I saw several sea turtles swim by, popping their heads up to look around. Some really large porpoise swam and dived in the deeper water. Fishing was poor but enjoying such a unique setting was great.
I sat on a huge granite rock and watched the Wharf Cat, a catamaran charter boat, go by heading for the Gulf of Mexico a few hundred yards south. I guessed how high the waves and action would go when they hit the jetty rocks. I missed my guess by one granite rock and was drenched from hat to foot. It really felt kinda' good in the heat of the morning. Birds dipped and swooped and kept me guessing as to their identity. I didn't have binos.
It's a good thing to get away from the noise of the city and it's like. On one occasion when activies for Jesus and His disciples had been demanding he spoke to the men and said: "Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest." . That place for you could be to walk the sands of St. Joseph's Island at about 7:00 in the morning. No telling what you might find.
