Again the weather determined our activities today and we
decided to take a day trip down to the port city of Galveston. On the way we
called into another huge Tanger Outlet complex maybe do some more shopping. We
were very surprised as the centre was almost deserted. We talked to one lady in
a shop and she said it may have been because of the flood warnings in the area.
She would have kept talking to us but as she had no customers and was quite bored
but we said we needed to keep moving. Most of the shops were the same with
nobody in them. We continued on to Galveston and enjoyed visiting many of the
area the lady in the shop had told us about. We visited the historic port
district of the Strand and had lunch there. In the port are we saw the huge oil
rigs being built and readied to be taken out to the oil fields in the ocean. Following
lunch we wandered the streets. The buildings in this area had been retained and
restored and were quite beautiful. I noticed a sign that said there was a
museum and tour of “Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig”. We decided to do the tour
as I was pretty sure it would be the only way any of us would get to see a
drilling rig up close. A footbridge led us out to the rig which was in the middle
of the harbour. The display and museum was extremely good and being housed in
an old oil rig make it even better. The oil rig was decommissioned about 20
years ago. Our drive back to our accommodation was done in the drizzling rain.
Hopefully tomorrow it may improve. We have been keeping an eye on Hurricane
Florence and at this stage we should be fine flying out on Saturday. Heather
and Paul however, have to fly to JFK in New York and have booked to fly out on
Thursday with a stop-over at Charlotte, North Carolina so they are waiting to
hear if their flight may be changed due to the hurricane.
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