First Picture Section

Water skiing off Padre Island

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Padre driftwood takes many weird shapes

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Driftwood’s beauties are many and varied

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Padre’s white sand dunes contrast with Gulf waters

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“Cactus garden” in the Lower Rio Grande Valley (Ken Snyder Photo)

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Shipwreck! Boilers and wreckage from the Nicaragua

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Earthen oven used by missionaries—Mission, Texas

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Mier Bell tolled disaster—1842 (Ken Snyder Photo)

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Ruins of the Patrick Dunn Ranch

Rio Grande R.R. Locomotive (Ken Snyder Photo)

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Port Isabel lighthouse

Century-old church—Weslaco

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Spanish dagger (Holbrook Photo)

Grapefruit cluster (Ken Snyder Photo)

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Palms make roads a majestic panorama

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