OUTDOOR STORIES: MATAGORDA ISLAND: A listener tells us 
that a visit to this WMA is like stepping into the past ... in 
more ways than one ... details are ahead on Passport to 
Texas ... 
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Passport to Texas' Outdoor Stories from TPWD

Terri McDonald of Rockport, responded to our request for 
listeners' stories about their favorite Texas State Parks, 
historic sites or wildlife management areas. Her favorite 
is Matagorda Island WMA.
 
Absolutely love it. There's no cars ... very few people ... it's just 
like going back in time to a beach a hundred years ago. :09

The slow pace leaves a lot of time for one of Terri's 
favorite pastimes -- beach combing.

We've found tons of seashells, beautiful driftwood, four 
messages in bottles ... . You just never know what you're going 
to find out there. :09

Terri says she's contacted three of the people whose 
message she found in the bottles.

The oldest one was from 1969. A soldier in the Vietnam War 
had dropped it off of Cape Canaveral. And we found it at the 
bottom of a dune that had been sheared off by a storm. So it 
had been buried under sixteen feet of sand for years and years. 
So we got in touch with him through the help of the Corpus 
Christi Caller Times Military Reporter. And the poor guy almost 
had a heart attack. It was a long time ago - he had almost 
forgotten doing it. :28

Thank you Terri. Now it's your turn. Contact the station 
where you hear Passport to Texas, to find out how to 
share your Outdoor Story.
 
That's our show for today ... thank you for joining us ... For 
Texas Parks and Wildlife...I'm Cecilia Nasti





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