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Cold comfort: call me loony, but the time to visit Bolivar Peninsula is in the winter.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-NOV-06
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Cold comfort: call me loony, but the time to visit Bolivar Peninsula is in the winter.(Go: SUZY BANKS HITS THE ROADS LESS TRAVELED)

Article Excerpt
The common loon has the sense to summer in Canada and avoid the Texas coast until fall, when the he at, hurricanes, and mosquitoes are less overwhelming. I never fully appreciated the bird's wisdom until one winter several years ago when a group of friends and I rented a beach house on Bolivar Peninsula, a 27-mile-long sand spit northeast of Galveston. That December, the weather was on its best behavior: clear skies, warm days, and crisp nights. We played dominoes, prowled the beach, ran in and very quickly out of the cold surf, built bonfires, and cooked seafood into near...

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