Coastal Current Special Features
- Eye on Nature
- Breeding plumage brings striking colors
- Scarlet Colley
- February is here and so it seems that ourlocal birds are getting their breeding plumage.The laughing gulls that have white heads allwinter are now getting their black hoods. Thepelicans are getting their colorful pouches andblue eyes. The Rosette Spo... Full story
- The Fishing Connection
- Don't get lured into the point of no return
- Capt. Spoony Bill
- Saturday started out as one ofthose South Texas days with nowind and lots of sun. It started toget hot early while we sat in thesun. An ole friend I grew up withhad made his way to South Texasout of the snow drifts and cold ofthe Midwest. David &ldqu... Full story
- At The Helm:
- Learning lessons the hard way
- W. D. "DOC" Gagan
- My column this week has to do with a different side of marine and boating safety, so before you go turning the page because you think that you’re invincible and know all there is to know about safety out on the water, I suggest you read this an... Full story
- Steve's Sightings
- The Mother Lagoon: Part II
- Steve Sinclair
- There no place like the Laguna Madre for birding, but that's certainly no secret. No birding trip to the Rio Grande Valley would be complete without a visit to the world's longest lagoon.The Laguna Madre separates the 110-mile long Padre Island and t... Full story
- In Good Company:
- R & R Bar-B-Que
- Maggie Denney
- Hallelujah! My prayers have been answered. Being the typical born and bred Texan I love authentic bbq and while there are some great eateries in the tri-cities area that offer a few bbq choices, we’ve been missing a place truly dedicated to jus... Full story
- News of the Weird
- Chuck Shepherd
- LEAD STORY Traditional bridge replacement on as prominent a highway as Interstate 15 in Mesquite, Nev., has generally required rerouting traffic for as long as a year, but the new "ac... Full story
- Hathcock History:
- Fossil Hunting on Padre Island
- Steve Hathcock
- “What caught my eye was the unusual coloring, at first I thought it was a rock,” said Lynn Pottebaum of McHenry, Ill., as she showed me her latest find. “I remembered reading your article when you wrote about the rib bone found by M... Full story
- The Fishing Connection
- Really shallow water at Flat Top
- Capt. Spoony Bill
- The jungle drums were beating thispast week and the message I was hearingwas the question about where are theReds? I spoke with several guides herelocally and the same story I kept hearingwas the Reds are moving around the bayand not staying in one p... Full story
- Eye on Nature
- Dolphins enjoying absence of read tide
- Scarlet Colley
- The dolphins of the Laguna Madreare celebrating. They are happy. It seemsthat after months of red tide killing somuch of their sea world, it is over andlife is breathing back into the bay waters.There is more food for them, they donot have to look at... Full story
- The Scratch' Post
- The law of supply and demand
- Maggie Denney
- A Valley resident recently walked into a shop and was dismayed to find rows upon rows of shark babies and fetuses in jars for sale. Beneath these were shelves stocked full of decapitated baby alligator heads - also for sale as souvenirs. The store al... Full story
