Port Mansfield is full of houses built along the canals that run through town. You have your boat dockage right out your back door. The canals all join up into one main channel that you follow out to the Laguna. Most of the property here is rental property. They rent out the houses by the day and week and in the winter they will rent by the month. Winter is the slow season down here for fishing even though the fishing is still pretty good. There are some beautiful houses but then right next door could be a small dumpy looking place. There is some new home building going on here. Its easy to see how a hurricane could come through and reek total havoc. A lot of the houses are built on concrete pilings "stilts" to help keep them above storm surge water.
Its typical Texas here -- very windy -- some days and at least some wind most days. Being so close to the salt water we are seeing rvs, boats, bikes, etc rusting away here. We bought some black rustoleum to try and stay on top of the little bits of rust we are seeing on our stuff but we do not want to stay here too long and have major rust problems.
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