The Lynchberg Ferry
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I would bet every one here has been on the Lynchberg Ferry. at one time or another. Hopefully these are views you have not seen. On the south side of Independence Parkway is the Juan Seguin Historic Park across from the Monument Inn. The park offers all the amenities for comfort, fishing and picture taking. There is always, during normal working hours, a park ranger there to answer questions and give a history of Juan Sequin and the area. I spend hours watching the ships, barges and ferries come and go and for wildlife watchers there is plenty to see. One of these days I will have to fish there too.
The Lynchburg Ferry, which crosses the Houston Ship Channel, connects North and South Independence Parkway and the San Jacinto Battleground Monument. Since 1888, Harris County has provided the ferry service free of charge.
Did you know?
Todd Shipyard built the William P. Hobby and Ross S. Sterling ferryboats in 1964. Both ferries are 61’8″ x 40’5″ in length and 8’9″ in depth. Their weight is 85 gross registered tonnage, and a capacity of 10 vehicles. Depending on the wind, currents and traffic the ferry can take up to 5-10 minutes to cross the ship channel.
Fried rattlesnake is the bomb as is gator. I have had rattlesnake chili (No Beans). that was really good. NO!! Rattlesnake does not taste like chicken
Bedtime out here. I’ve never liked snakes of any kind, and I just try to avoid them. Feral cats and roadrunners seem to be helpful in controlling them up here on this rocky hill, so I’m friendly with the cats and roadrunners. I think the possums are immune to the poison and eat them too, but don’t quote me on… Read more »
I do not now and never have eaten reptiles or rodents. I also don’t eat internal organs like liver and kidneys. I do admit to eating mountain oysters twice a long time ago.
The bad cells of that line broke up just as it got to us.
#106 – Dayum! 😉
I’d eat Squawks chili before I ate moccasin.
I’d eat liver before I’d eat moccasin.
95
I’d eat day old kale out of the fridge before I ate moccasin.
Bones
LOL. Yeah i have had that joke in my back pocket for years. Old trucker humor too.
Dang.
Was editing a big comment and poof it went away.
Try again mañana.
I guess my knife was in the shop for repairs.
New reading assignment. Wilfred M. McClay holds the Victor Davis Hanson Chair in Classical History and Western Civilization at Hillsdale College. This essay was delivered as the 34th Erasmus Lecture. Excerpt: A long time ago, at the beginning of my graduate studies in history at Johns Hopkins University, I read the philosopher George Santayana for the first time. We all… Read more »
#99 SQUAWK: That right there is Bonecrusher kind of humor, well done sir.
Boogers
The original nose candy
My first encounter with an angry, aggressive water moccasin was on the banks of Rummel Creek when I was 10 or 11. I used to spend an inordinate amount of time down there, much to the consternation of my mother. I was trying to catch turtles for my collection and I was kneeling at the muddy bank when I saw… Read more »
Friend got a forked stick and pinned him behind the head. Snake not happy. WHERE THE EFF WAS YOUR KNIFE?!? I have carried a knife since kindergarden and have never regretted it; those darned things come in handy. I use my fixed blade knife (whichever one I choose to wear) every day and I use it every day. Prolly the… Read more »
That explains everything.
I have et a water moccasin. Somebody else ketched him, but I et it.
Tastes like chicken.
Et turtle eggs, too.
Boogers when I was younger.
Was messing around a friend’s pond in Kenney when we were in high school and came upon a moccasin on the bank with an oversized bullfrog halfway sticking out of his mouth. He didn’t move, just sat there. Friend got a forked stick and pinned him behind the head. Snake not happy. Friend: Here, hold him down. So I did.… Read more »
I’ve picked up copperheads, rattle snakes and even a coral snake, but never, ever a water moccasin.
When I was 12, 13, 14 years old working on a ranch and building fences, every time we’d start setting posts and stretching wire through a creekbed or ravine, it was always all about the damned water moccasins. We carried varmint guns and watched carefully, but sometimes they would be right there at your feet before you knew it. They’re… Read more »
Heh
Even during my drinkin days I never got “that” type of courage. Sober yeah but not drinkin. Okay I have picked up my share of venomous snakes. SOBER
Bones you are nuts. I thought this was established a long time ago I have picked up my share of poisonous snakes. They are venomous, not poisonous. They can be eaten, but they prolly taste like $#!t! Did you miss this: I saw a water moccasin and having had enough “canned Courage” This would be known as “beer”, most likely… Read more »
Watching a light show just north of us. Gonna be a bumpy night
Just outside.
Can see and hear some nasty stuff coming in from the W/NW.
Bones you are nuts. I have picked up my share of poisonous snakes. Never one of them
Water mocs are nasty bastards. I crossed paths with them a couple times. I thought sure I was gonna get bit. Damn things are hard to kill even with shot. you almost have to turn their head in a slurpy. Gators that have been around people scare me more than totally wild. Even if they are not fed by people… Read more »
water moccasins I have only encountered those serpents a few times. Once when a friend of mine and I were on a road trip we had to stop and “de-ballast”. We chose a bridge and went for a brief walk underneath. I saw a water moccasin and having had enough “canned Courage” I picked up a stick and pinned his… Read more »
82 Squawk
I’ve been chased. I know. /shivers
There used to be a big bull gator down in the swamp pond near the water at St. Charles bay in Rockport. He was kind of a neighborhood mascot. There was a guy who lived around there with an alto sax who would sit far across the road from the pond and blow a long B Flat on the sax. … Read more »
Gators don’t bother me. I keep on eye on em. You learn the signs and steer clear. Most times they just want to sun because eating time is usually morning and night. I have walked up on them accidentally. They never moved as I slowly backed away. Where people get in trouble is when they corner the gator, get in… Read more »
Yah, but penicillin clears it right up.
I’ve taken retirement seriously enough to spend less time on things that were routine before “retirement”. Cooking was never a passion as far as exotic dishes goes, just something to engage in for special occasions or company coming. The rest of the time we prefer taking advantage of restaurants that provide variations of all kinds of cuisine rather than make… Read more »
All set up to talk here, but got nothing to say really. I skipped my nap today, and it’s certainly too late now even though I’m getting a little sluggish. Maybe I’ll try top work one of my Absolutely Nasty Sudoku puzzles. More later
It highly likely that even three cheeses can’t save kale.
Back to the Channel Shipyards and Lynchburg Ferry. Shortly before I left my job there, I was back in the holding tank farm area looking for my straw boss, the yard foreman. I found him opening up some well hidden valves behind the tanks. I never went back there and he was adamant about handling the tanks by himself. I… Read more »
#69 Sarge, I also saw that while browsing through the frozen food case in the Pecan Grove Randalls and had to look to see how it was to be prepared. Mostly lost interest when there were no instructions for microwave heating, but instead oven baking for something like 45 minutes. Did think about how to convert that into microwave heating… Read more »
Gator don’t go near Swamp Monster.
73 Squawk
I hate to tell you this, but it’s because the gators already ate them. Be careful and take a shotgun.
Texpat
My fishing is restricted to certain swamps, sloughs rivers and a couple places i hike into on the gulf. I like the gulf spots because I have never seen another person or game wardens. Great flounder locals. I do not fish for red or drums because of the keep no keep laws.
69 Sarge That definitely ranks up there with Squawk’s soy-based Memphis BBQ. Let all these lefty fools tank up on cruciferous crap. You know what’s in kale and cruciferous plants ? Thallium. And who loves thallium ? Vladimir Putin, that’s who. It’s all a sinister plot. “She (Marina) didn’t have enemies. Everybody loved her. She’s a great doctor,” Stern said.… Read more »
WWII version?
Texpat says: MARCH 14, 2022 AT 11:27 AM GJT We have an in-house sleeping bag tycoon. I’m sure he can fix you up with some fine, vintage sleeping bag Davy Crockett slept in before he went to the Alamo. Yes, but I am currently very busy on re-entering the media space I abandoned before entering the incredibly lucrative and exciting… Read more »
I have found the definitive proof that civilization is near its end. There it was…in the frozen food section…next to the Country Cheddar with Broccoli…..
Three Cheese Kale Bake.
Oh, the humanity!
If you dare, there’s a pic of it on my page over yonder….
I just saw a short announcement made by Dr Naomi Wolfe on Steve Bannon’s news show, about proof that people in charge of releasing the mRNA jabs knew they were lying when they said the stuff stayed in the bicep, did not circulate into the body.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/naomi-wolf-we-now-have-161-lawyers-working-on-pfizer-documents/
Squawk & Others I forgot to mention this earlier. If you go to fish at Lynchburg, or anywhere else on the Ship Channel, make sure it’s catch-and-release. Don’t eat anything out of that water. It’s a whole cleaner than it used to be, but those heavy metals, etc. don’t just disappear. All those industries used to use the Channel as… Read more »
This is from a newsletter I get from Decision Desk HQ, which covers elections nationwide: Harris Commissioners Rake in Vendor Money In the run-up to the Texas primary last week, you might have missed a blockbuster story from Zach Despart of the Houston Chronicle that focused on the Harris County Commissioners Court, which consists of a county judge and four… Read more »
61 TT
One of them needs to call the local media.
They love these stories about evil landlords.
One thing about the free ferry is there is no ferry man to pay.
Fragot: $0.61/gal