Today High Island is a small town of about 450 people on the Upper Texas Coast between Galveston and the Louisiana border. It’s usually a quiet town, but each year from March through to May, thousands of enthusiastic visitors from all over the world pour into the area to enjoy the huge numbers of migrating birds that pass through on their way north to their breeding grounds.
Winnie Burkett of the Houston Audubon Society has kindly allowed us to reproduce the excerpts below from their High Island brochure. For the complete brochure, including maps of the reserves, drop into their kiosk in Boy Scout Woods.
THE HISTORY OF HIGH ISLAND High Island was undoubtedly used by Indians for thousand of years. No archeological sites have been excavated on the island, but shell middens, pieces of black pottery and arrow points dating from as far back as 1200 A.D. have been found on Bolivar Peninsula and around Galveston Bay. These indicate the presence of hunter-gatherers who roamed the region collecting shellfish and hunting the abundant wildlife. Indians may have also visited the mineral springs that were a result of the minerals associated with the salt dome mixing with ground water, which used to exist on the “Island.”
According to the legend, the pirate Jean Lafitte and his crew sometimes had parties in the big grove of oak trees that covered the island when they cruised the coast in the early 1800’s. There are rumors that the pirates buried some of their treasure here. Although many have searched, no one has ever reported finding any trace of the pirates or their treasure.
One of the early settlers of High Island was Martin Dunman, who arrived in 1845. He had received a league of land (three square miles) that included part of High Island for his part in the Texas Revolution. Reportedly there was at least one house on High Island, which has been built by Charles Cronea, one of Lafitte’s cabin boys when Dunman arrived with his wife and two sons. A historical marker, erected in Cronea’s honor, can be found in the High Island cemetery.
The “Island’s” mineral springs played an important role in the local economy in the late 1800’s. The railroad ran excursions to the community so that people could visit the springs and the beach.
The town had a large, ornate hotel called The Seaview erected in 1895 by W.T. Cade. Built on the east side of the island, The Seaview faces the Gulf of Mexico. The hotel had a large ballroom and a mule drawn rail car that carried visitors to and from the beach several times a day. High Island’s time as a resort was ended by the 1900 hurricane. However, the hotel survived the hurricane and was a very active location for many years. It was abandoned during World War II and burned in 1947. Some hotel outbuildings still survive in a tangled lot surrounded by a tall chain-link fence.
HIGH ISLAND’S UNIQUE GEOLOGY High Island is the surface expression of a salt dome at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. A thick layer of ancient salt exists throughout southeast Texas about 30,000 feet below the surface. At some location, like High Island, a column of salt was squeezed upward toward the surface. This “dome,” therefore, is a salt cylinder some six miles tall and about a mile in diameter. As the salt dome rose, it brought massive amounts of salt and smaller amounts of other minerals close to the surface of the earth, where they sometimes mixed with ground water. The movement of the salt shattered and tipped overlying rock layers, and oil and gas in the rocks then traveled along the cracks in the rocks and “pooled” around the edges of the dome.
Oil exploration began on High Island in 1901, soon after the Spindletop discovery on a similar salt structure in the Beaumont area. Commercial production began in 1922. Exploration and production continue today and oil, natural gas and sulfur have all been extracted from sediments bent up by the dome. Most production has been found along the west, north and east sides of the “Island.”
Today High Island rises 32 feet above the surrounding marshes, providing soil conditions favorable to trees and shrubs. It forms a unique and important island of habitat for migrating birds.
BIRD MIGRATION Many species of birds, called neotropical migrants, nest in North America and spend the winter in Latin America. Twice each year these birds migrate the long distances between wintering grounds and spring nesting locations.
Each spring millions of birds that wintered in Central and South America are driven north by the urge to establish breeding territories and select mates. They first push north to the Yucatan Peninsula and the adjacent Mexican coast. Beginning in early March, migrants reach the tip of the peninsula and if the weather conditions are favorable, just after sunset, migrants leave Mexico and head north across the Gulf of Mexico.
The trip across the Gulf is 600 miles and with good weather takes about 18 hours. Arriving on the Texas coast midday, some of these birds stop on the coast; but most of the migrating birds will fly inland until nightfall.
回来了。累死了，小娃生了两天病在家，闹腾，今天终于好了，刚送到daycare去。
pat pat
我的wave里只看得到冬日
我现在能看见鹅，兔子，kp，蓬蓬，冬日
by the way, 我有二十几个invitation，有需要的筒子吱一声。
大家研究好怎么用了我就来学习
我现在能看见鹅，兔子，kp，蓬蓬，冬日
这个需要互相加吗？
要买洗发水了
大家推荐一个开价货吧
我头皮比较油，头发在亚洲人里算细的，不过没有白人那么细
你不是用v05挺好的吗？
你不是用v05挺好的吗？
我用腻了想换个
我现在能看见鹅，兔子，kp，蓬蓬，冬日
你怎么看到的？是不是要给你们发邀请？我没有你们的email啊
你怎么看到的？是不是要给你们发邀请？我没有你们的email啊
从书楼摘要那封信里看到的
我点了unfollow，这下都没了
对不起我实在忍不住要
从书楼摘要那封信里看到的
什么信？
我点了unfollow，这下都没了
哈哈哈哈
什么信？
我也咩找到。
空空~~~收到邀请了！
xie.... just joined, now i saw e, and bilanbilan (who??) . how do i see other people? do i have to explicitly follow?
xie.... just joined, now i saw e, and bilanbilan (who??) . how do i see other people? do i have to explicitly follow?
看到我没？
看到我没？
who is who ya
who is who ya
我是老虎头啊
鹅能加空空和jolin到书楼摘要的wave里面吗？
and me pls
我看到kp加人了，但不知道谁是谁。
加错了n个，粉特
加错了n个，粉特
要不要重新开一个wave
这次大家都把自己的wave发给冬日，然后冬日开新的
要不要重新开一个wave
这次大家都把自己的wave发给冬日，然后冬日开新的
每个人都开一个新的wave?
每个人都开一个新的wave?
不是
每个人把自己wave的地址发给冬日，冬日再开一个新的，这样大家都能收到
这样子，每年春天，无数的候鸟飞跃墨西哥湾，一路继续向北，飞到美国北部或者加拿大。而在墨西哥湾北部边缘的High island，这个位于Texas和Louisiana交界的小岛，是这些刚刚飞过墨西哥湾的疲惫的鸟儿们的第一个休息站。每年三月中到五月初，大批的人也聚集到这里，看成片的鸟栖息在各个角落。
原来，从Galveston走87号公路，一路东向，就可以到达high island了，不过因为经常被水淹，这条路已经封闭荒废了，除非有越野车，否则，要从10号绕道。
Today High Island is a small town of about 450 people on the Upper Texas Coast between Galveston and the Louisiana border. It’s usually a quiet town, but each year from March through to May, thousands of enthusiastic visitors from all over the world pour into the area to enjoy the huge numbers of migrating birds that pass through on their way north to their breeding grounds.
Winnie Burkett of the Houston Audubon Society has kindly allowed us to reproduce the excerpts below from their High Island brochure. For the complete brochure, including maps of the reserves, drop into their kiosk in Boy Scout Woods.
THE HISTORY OF HIGH ISLAND
High Island was undoubtedly used by Indians for thousand of years. No archeological sites have been excavated on the island, but shell middens, pieces of black pottery and arrow points dating from as far back as 1200 A.D. have been found on Bolivar Peninsula and around Galveston Bay. These indicate the presence of hunter-gatherers who roamed the region collecting shellfish and hunting the abundant wildlife. Indians may have also visited the mineral springs that were a result of the minerals associated with the salt dome mixing with ground water, which used to exist on the “Island.”
According to the legend, the pirate Jean Lafitte and his crew sometimes had parties in the big grove of oak trees that covered the island when they cruised the coast in the early 1800’s. There are rumors that the pirates buried some of their treasure here. Although many have searched, no one has ever reported finding any trace of the pirates or their treasure.
One of the early settlers of High Island was Martin Dunman, who arrived in 1845. He had received a league of land (three square miles) that included part of High Island for his part in the Texas Revolution. Reportedly there was at least one house on High Island, which has been built by Charles Cronea, one of Lafitte’s cabin boys when Dunman arrived with his wife and two sons. A historical marker, erected in Cronea’s honor, can be found in the High Island cemetery.
The “Island’s” mineral springs played an important role in the local economy in the late 1800’s. The railroad ran excursions to the community so that people could visit the springs and the beach.
The town had a large, ornate hotel called The Seaview erected in 1895 by W.T. Cade. Built on the east side of the island, The Seaview faces the Gulf of Mexico. The hotel had a large ballroom and a mule drawn rail car that carried visitors to and from the beach several times a day. High Island’s time as a resort was ended by the 1900 hurricane. However, the hotel survived the hurricane and was a very active location for many years. It was abandoned during World War II and burned in 1947. Some hotel outbuildings still survive in a tangled lot surrounded by a tall chain-link fence.
HIGH ISLAND’S UNIQUE GEOLOGY
High Island is the surface expression of a salt dome at the edge of the Gulf of Mexico. A thick layer of ancient salt exists throughout southeast Texas about 30,000 feet below the surface. At some location, like High Island, a column of salt was squeezed upward toward the surface. This “dome,” therefore, is a salt cylinder some six miles tall and about a mile in diameter. As the salt dome rose, it brought massive amounts of salt and smaller amounts of other minerals close to the surface of the earth, where they sometimes mixed with ground water. The movement of the salt shattered and tipped overlying rock layers, and oil and gas in the rocks then traveled along the cracks in the rocks and “pooled” around the edges of the dome.
Oil exploration began on High Island in 1901, soon after the Spindletop discovery on a similar salt structure in the Beaumont area. Commercial production began in 1922. Exploration and production continue today and oil, natural gas and sulfur have all been extracted from sediments bent up by the dome. Most production has been found along the west, north and east sides of the “Island.”
Today High Island rises 32 feet above the surrounding marshes, providing soil conditions favorable to trees and shrubs. It forms a unique and important island of habitat for migrating birds.
BIRD MIGRATION
Many species of birds, called neotropical migrants, nest in North America and spend the winter in Latin America. Twice each year these birds migrate the long distances between wintering grounds and spring nesting locations.
Each spring millions of birds that wintered in Central and South America are driven north by the urge to establish breeding territories and select mates. They first push north to the Yucatan Peninsula and the adjacent Mexican coast. Beginning in early March, migrants reach the tip of the peninsula and if the weather conditions are favorable, just after sunset, migrants leave Mexico and head north across the Gulf of Mexico.
The trip across the Gulf is 600 miles and with good weather takes about 18 hours. Arriving on the Texas coast midday, some of these birds stop on the coast; but most of the migrating birds will fly inland until nightfall.
不是
每个人把自己wave的地址发给冬日，冬日再开一个新的，这样大家都能收到
o done
http://www.visitsabinepassbattleground.com/index.aspx?page=14
我是老虎头啊
我没看到老虎头
妙妙在不在？
在，啥事儿？
如果不走那么远，也可以去Sabine pass,这是一个古战场，有很多never been touch的古迹，当然和中国的不能比，但是在美国这地方，也算难得了
http://www.visitsabinepassbattleground.com/index.aspx?page=14
你们打算什么时候去？
如果我漏了的，大家伙儿可以确定身份的自己加吧
我没看到老虎头
你们看到冬日的书楼摘要的wave了吗？点wave里的人 头像，然后add to contact
你们打算什么时候去？
老公问你，要是去新奥尔良的路上去，你去不？他说他本打算这周去的，我都不知道，
老公问你，要是去新奥尔良的路上去，你去不？他说他本打算这周去的，我都不知道，
呃，这周我们不太好办，关键是new orleans行程和reservations都订得比较紧凑，再加一个进去就很困难了。
我写的动人不？
哈哈哈哈，很动人。
呃，这周我们不太好办，关键是new orleans行程和reservations都订得比较紧凑，再加一个进去就很困难了。
知道了，我再问问他，他夸你做得好呢，都是可丁可卯的安排的，不像我们，走到哪算哪
不是
每个人把自己wave的地址发给冬日，冬日再开一个新的，这样大家都能收到
那里找自己的wave地址？
嗯，那10号那个周末呢？
我朋友家狗狗长了fleas把她弄得焦头烂额，所以我们现在倾向于不去dallas了。
我问问他去，他说道五月就没鸟可打了
知道了，我再问问他，他夸你做得好呢，都是可丁可卯的安排的，不像我们，走到哪算哪
嗯，那10号那个周末呢？
我朋友家狗狗长了fleas把她弄得焦头烂额，所以我们现在倾向于不去dallas了。
dropbox 通过refer已经可以扩容到8G了
麻烦refer俺，各自可以得到250M，点下面link来注册才可以。
https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTE5MjAyNTM5
等我去换IP代理，多注册几个，哼哼~
那里找自己的wave地址？
就是你gmail地址，××××@googlewave.com
你家有越野吉普不/
没有，只有一部highlander，行不行？
不过highlander也没有4-wheel drive.
[此贴子已经被作者于2010/3/31 13:43:23编辑过]
鹅：收到邀请了，只看到鹅
我把你拖进来了
就是你gmail地址，××××@googlewave.com
谢谢，发给冬日了。
我把你拖进来了
这次看到了~~~不错啊，我喜欢。谢谢
没有，只有一部highlander，行不行？
不过highlander也没有4-wheel drive.
[此贴子已经被作者于2010/3/31 13:43:23编辑过]
我就是问问，反正绕路也可以
又不见书楼摘要了，怎么办？
你有wave帐号吗？有让冬日加上就行
你有wave帐号吗？有让冬日加上就行
冬日人呢
冬日人呢
不知道
你给她短信没？
不知道
你给她短信没？
短了
短了
我看见你在的啊。
我看见你在的啊。
我要换一个一看就是我的id
我要换一个一看就是我的id
可以改名字和头像啊
要不下次重新开wave的时候你重新换个wave地址
改头像id -> 左边点自己头像，"edit profile"，要点２次 ，飞快就改好了。
点了之后只出现remove yourself。。
点了之后只出现remove yourself。。
点左边contacts下面自己的头像id
点了之后只出现remove yourself。。
而且这个好像只能加人不能删，你要换wave地址，你原来那个也还在上面
要不下次重新开wave的时候你重新换个wave地址
晕
点了之后只出现remove yourself。。
你告诉我怎么出现“remove yourself”的，我要做这个
点除了contact下面那个之外的自己头像，都出remove urself
但是这个remove yourself是灰色的，不能点
但是这个remove yourself是灰色的，不能点
对啊
妙妙，老公说，我们就不去新奥尔良了，刚去过的。我们这周末先去打鸟，要是好玩，下个周末再去！
好，收到。
我回来跟你取经，我都计划好了这周去new orleans下周去打鸟，结果突然发现我还没保税，法克！
但是这个remove yourself是灰色的，不能点
这是自杀吗?
好，收到。
我回来跟你取经，我都计划好了这周去new orleans下周去打鸟，结果突然发现我还没保税，法克！
我们也没抱水泥
刚才bid了20$一晚
Crystal City
Dupont Circle - Woodley Park
White House - Downtown
很便宜吧？
so cool!
刚才bid了20$一晚
Crystal City
Dupont Circle - Woodley Park
White House - Downtown
很便宜吧？
nice
这是自杀吗?
我觉得不是，点别人的头像也会出来remove，总不能随便杀人
so cool!
刚才bid了20$一晚
Crystal City
Dupont Circle - Woodley Park
White House - Downtown
很便宜吧？
你这周末又要去看樱花啦？
这是哪个hotel?
[此贴子已经被作者于2010/3/31 16:12:08编辑过]
就请静悄悄绕过
９月我联系过了，这个组织是能靠得住的
谢谢。
云贵大旱见http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail-0db2-a4baf93a37e02d73fe552c4d65d9a588.htm
捐款见http://forums.huaren.us/showtopic.aspx?boardid=333&topicid=725654&page=0&star=120
我是下个周末，去看建筑，樱花，我这个粗人实际上欣赏不了
[此贴子已经被作者于2010/3/31 16:23:44编辑过]
r u guys on wave? pls add me
你的wave 地址？
[/replyview]
已经有Wave
[此贴子已经被作者于2010/3/31 16:52:52编辑过]
大家看看这个吧，要觉得烦 (怎么这么帮妈又折腾捐款了)
就请静悄悄绕过
９月我联系过了，这个组织是能靠得住的
谢谢。
云贵大旱见http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail-0db2-a4baf93a37e02d73fe552c4d65d9a588.htm
捐款见http://forums.huaren.us/showtopic.aspx?boardid=333&topicid=725654&page=0&star=120
怎么个捐法?