Texas tar balls
Thankfully, things aren’t always bigger in Texas.
Well, we finally got hit—knew we couldn’t dodge that BP bullet forever—but, so far at least, the tar balls that washed ashore recently were pretty few and far between.
Counting the four locations along the Texas Gulf Coast that reported seeing tar balls on the beach, including East Beach on Galveston Island and Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula, the grand total of the dime- to nickel-sized weathered tar balls amounted to only about a dozen gallon bucketsful. By Louisiana standards, that’s a pittance. Read the rest of this entry »
