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San Leon is located on a peninsula that juts out into the waters of Galveston Bay and the Houston Ship Channel. Its population is somewhere around 5,000 residents, slowly growing back after being wiped off the map by Hurricane Ike in 2008.
It's a fairly scenic place along the shoreline, but not particularly a day trip destination. Fish, shrimp and oyster boats offer photographic opportunities.
... San Leon
The grounds of the restaurant Topwater Grill are an interesting spot to watch the fishing boats come in. Most of the photos on this page were taken there, including the pelicans' activity around the fish cleaning table. Topwater is located on the southern most point of San Leon.
Mounds of oyster shells are a common sight along parts of Galveston Bay.
"An interesting bird is the pelican. Its beak can hold more than its belly can. "
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San Leon is also home to a colony of monk parrots, also known as Quaker parrots or Monk parakeets. The parakeet-size birds build large nests near the transformers on telephone posts in the town.
Inside the nests, which appear to have only one entrance and exit, are separate chambers that hold individual pairs of the birds. One nest, made of tree branches, can weigh as much as 400 pounds and hold, typically, from eight to 20 pairs of the birds.
