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CocoCay or Little Stirrup Cay, sometimes titled Perfect Day at CoCoCay (/ k oʊ k oʊ k eɪ /) is one of the Berry Islands, a collection of Bahamian cays and small islands located approximately 55 miles (89 km) north of Nassau. [1] It is used for tourism by Royal Caribbean Group exclusively.
Bolivar Roads is a natural navigable strait fringed by Bolivar Peninsula and Galveston Island emerging as a landform on the Texas Gulf Coast. [4] The natural waterway inlet has a depth of 45 feet (14 m) with an island to peninsula shoreline width of 1.5 miles (2.4 km).
The majority of the 807 people live on Great Harbor Cay. Bahamian wreckers were the reason the Berry Islands were founded. These wreckers traveled around the Bahamas looking for remains of cargo ships that had crashed on the reefs. Williams Town was the first settlement (check sources) on an island called Great Stirrup, now known as CocoCay.
Port of Galveston ca. 1845 Loading cotton at Galveston Wharfs & Harbor. During the late 19th century, the port was the busiest on the Gulf Coast and considered to be second busiest in the country, next to the port of New York City. [11] In the 1850s, the port of Galveston exported approximately goods valued almost 20 times what was imported.
They arrived at the harbor at 3 pm, and at 10 pm the Captain had noted that the barometer had fallen four tenths, and informed the passengers "that a hurricane was blowing". The ship was blown out of the safety of the harbor, and as a result multiple passengers died, including Rev. J.S.J. Higgs, the rector of the parish of San Salvador Island. [4]
Galveston Bay (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a bay in the western Gulf of Mexico along the upper coast of Texas.It is the seventh-largest estuary in the United States, [2] and the largest of seven major estuaries along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Overnight camping, while once allowed, is prohibited on the Galveston side of the pass. The San Luis Pass Camp Ground and county park, on the Brazoria County side, is the only accessible place now. [9] At least from the Galveston Island side, entering the water is prohibited, because of safety hazards. [4] [10]
The new Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier was built 1,130 feet (340 m) out over the Gulf of Mexico waters. It had its "soft" opening on May 25, 2012. [6]The new pier complex is located where the original Pleasure Pier stood from 1943 until 1961, when it was destroyed by Hurricane Carla.