Surfside does have an excellent restaurant. Cross the bridge and take a left, can’t miss it. On a day when the fish are not biting, take a right and find your way opposite the Coast Guard Station. The water is deep there. You can pick up sand trout by bouncing plastics off the bottom. Cast into the Coastie’s basin. This… Read more »
GJT
December 5, 2010 7:38 pm
Still looks like a mighty fine place for an old fart to read a book, have a brew and a smoke. We don’t need no stinking bikinis runnin’ ’round distractin’ us and all. 😛
#2 goatman, thanks for the Handbook Of Texas reference. It’s an interesting place. When I was a teenager it was THE the place to be…out of the way…hidden. Now in the shadow of a “liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving and regasification terminal”, few would buy property there. It is just south of Surfside, which has one the finest restaurants in… Read more »
gtotracker42
December 5, 2010 5:39 pm
I only learned a few years ago what Quintana once was. This article does not go into much detail but is all I can find online. Wealthy plantation owners built large homes there to impress each other and out of state relatives. ‘Twas quite a place in its day. After the war it declined and disappeared.
The book? Conquests and Cultures, An International History by Thomas Sowell. Highly recommended.
gtotracker42
December 5, 2010 8:08 pm
Surfside does have an excellent restaurant. Cross the bridge and take a left, can’t miss it. On a day when the fish are not biting, take a right and find your way opposite the Coast Guard Station. The water is deep there. You can pick up sand trout by bouncing plastics off the bottom. Cast into the Coastie’s basin. This… Read more »
Southern Tragedy
December 5, 2010 7:38 pm
Still looks like a mighty fine place for an old fart to read a book, have a brew and a smoke. We don’t need no stinking bikinis runnin’ ’round distractin’ us and all. 😛
Nothing quite like the Texas coast. I’m sure the gubment is working on some way to screw that up too.
Shannon
December 5, 2010 6:43 pm
Whodda thought dumpy little Surfside would have a fine restaurant?
Shannon
December 5, 2010 6:16 pm
#2 goatman, thanks for the Handbook Of Texas reference. It’s an interesting place. When I was a teenager it was THE the place to be…out of the way…hidden. Now in the shadow of a “liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving and regasification terminal”, few would buy property there. It is just south of Surfside, which has one the finest restaurants in… Read more »
gtotracker42
December 5, 2010 5:39 pm
I only learned a few years ago what Quintana once was. This article does not go into much detail but is all I can find online. Wealthy plantation owners built large homes there to impress each other and out of state relatives. ‘Twas quite a place in its day. After the war it declined and disappeared.
Shannon
December 5, 2010 5:22 pm
The book? Conquests and Cultures, An International History by Thomas Sowell. Highly recommended.
Surfside does have an excellent restaurant. Cross the bridge and take a left, can’t miss it. On a day when the fish are not biting, take a right and find your way opposite the Coast Guard Station. The water is deep there. You can pick up sand trout by bouncing plastics off the bottom. Cast into the Coastie’s basin. This… Read more »
Still looks like a mighty fine place for an old fart to read a book, have a brew and a smoke. We don’t need no stinking bikinis runnin’ ’round distractin’ us and all. 😛
Nothing quite like the Texas coast. I’m sure the gubment is working on some way to screw that up too.
Whodda thought dumpy little Surfside would have a fine restaurant?
#2 goatman, thanks for the Handbook Of Texas reference. It’s an interesting place. When I was a teenager it was THE the place to be…out of the way…hidden. Now in the shadow of a “liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving and regasification terminal”, few would buy property there. It is just south of Surfside, which has one the finest restaurants in… Read more »
I only learned a few years ago what Quintana once was. This article does not go into much detail but is all I can find online. Wealthy plantation owners built large homes there to impress each other and out of state relatives. ‘Twas quite a place in its day. After the war it declined and disappeared.
The book? Conquests and Cultures, An International History by Thomas Sowell. Highly recommended.
Surfside does have an excellent restaurant. Cross the bridge and take a left, can’t miss it. On a day when the fish are not biting, take a right and find your way opposite the Coast Guard Station. The water is deep there. You can pick up sand trout by bouncing plastics off the bottom. Cast into the Coastie’s basin. This… Read more »
Still looks like a mighty fine place for an old fart to read a book, have a brew and a smoke. We don’t need no stinking bikinis runnin’ ’round distractin’ us and all. 😛
Nothing quite like the Texas coast. I’m sure the gubment is working on some way to screw that up too.
Whodda thought dumpy little Surfside would have a fine restaurant?
#2 goatman, thanks for the Handbook Of Texas reference. It’s an interesting place. When I was a teenager it was THE the place to be…out of the way…hidden. Now in the shadow of a “liquefied natural gas (LNG) receiving and regasification terminal”, few would buy property there. It is just south of Surfside, which has one the finest restaurants in… Read more »
I only learned a few years ago what Quintana once was. This article does not go into much detail but is all I can find online. Wealthy plantation owners built large homes there to impress each other and out of state relatives. ‘Twas quite a place in its day. After the war it declined and disappeared.
The book? Conquests and Cultures, An International History by Thomas Sowell. Highly recommended.