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McCoy Traugott 3, paddles around the waters of King Fisher Beach. Behind him, his brothers, Dobson, 4, and Tolan, 6, share a kayak.
SAND BREATHES NEW LIFE INTO KING FISHER BEACH BY SAMANTHA DOUTY Victoria Advocate
PORT O’CONNOR — Umbrellas spread over the hot sand at King Fisher Beach with beach dwellers retreating from the sun underneath among them were Kay Henderson and her two friends. With the smell of sunscreen in the air and cold drinks in their hands, the three Round Rock women enjoyed a day of their three-day weekend away from home. “It’s a great getaway,” Ann Morton, 63, said. She and Rosie Lee, 57, were staying with Henderson at her vacation house in Port O’Connor. Henderson uses the beach 58
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as an escape from work, she said, but it wasn’t always that way. The beach recently received a deposit of sand and other materials from the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, which began dredge work in April. The Army Corps of Engineers commissioned the project with King Fisher Beach on the receiving end of the materials. This was the breath of life the beach needed, Henderson, 65, said. She has been coming to the beach for the past six decades and said the area used to be a sea wall that dropped to the water. The sand was nearly non-existent.
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An inviting beach chair sits alone in the water at King Fisher Beach.
