This time of year, lots of inland Texans are thinking of the coast and the surf and the Gulf breezes. Course the latter come to us when there’s a good low-pressure area off to our west-northwest, sometimes bringing us the only summer rain we get. Anyhow, when we go we stay at the condo. Never have stayed at the little Tarpon Inn, at PortA, with its cavalry-barracks architecture, but lion tamer Clyde Beatty did, and cake-mix magnate Duncan Hines, etc., way back when. FDR caught a tarpon offshore, as many still do, but he slept somewhere else.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
This “Fall special starting September 1st and ending February 28th” – does it include a hurricane discount?
This “Fall special starting September 1st and ending February 28th” – does it include a hurricane discount?
The hurricanes mostly hit the Texas coast in August-September. Though there hasn’t been a major hit at Port A since 1919. The special refers to the fall-winter season when even the Gulf water is cold.