February 14, 2004

• Texas City, Texas

  We passed Texas City several times on our sailing trip. It is weird-looking, like the opening scene of “Bladerunner” or downtown L.A. on a bad day.

  
  Gulls follow a barge.

  Texas City refineries are blowing smoke in the distance, like some kind of creepy Atlantis on the horizon. The water is brown in the wake of the barges, because it is only 15-50 feet deep in the ship channel, and most of them are running in the 20-foot-deep section anyway.

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