Port aransas

From the beach, we watch the tankers go back and forth through the channel to Corpus Christi. We thought that was the whole story until we read that they’re talking about widening and deepening the channel. If they deepen the channel, these tankers can carry more and empty a supertanker in four trips instead of five. As big as that ship looks, it’s tiny compared to the supertanker out there somewhere we don’t even see.

The tankers are low in the water when they come in and high in the water when they go out. Guess they don’t produce enough oil in Texas, they have to put oil into the pipeline by tankerload as well.