PLEASE VOLUNTEER FOR A MORNING TO MAKE Boggy Nature Park BEAUTIFUL: Clean Up Saturday April 28th.
Call or email Joe Wiatt- jvwiatt@gmail.com, 713-446-7061 cell with voice mail to sign up!
Boggy Nature Park, badly in need of a clean up.
The Port O’Connor Chamber of Commerce has embarked upon an aggressive campaign to promote Port O Connor including our unique and beautiful access to our three bays for all types of sports that depend on our clean and accessible waters adjoining the mid coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Not only bay and off shore fishing, but kayak and bird watching, camping, and exploring the rich history of our area are among the activities Port O Connor provides.
Keeping Port O’Connor clean and pristine for our residents and children and our guests is the responsibility of everyone. Working with the enthusiastic Chamber Board of Directors as their committee chair for the King Fisher Park Management committee has been enjoyable and has been beneficial to Port O Connor in keeping the park, little jetties, and the public boat launch areas clean and well maintained.
Port O’Connor has another jewel that could be even more appreciated by our residents and guests and that is the Boggy Nature Park. Boggy is located on the north edge of Port O Connor with street entrance just a short distance from Washington St. Boggy is one of the few places in Texas, if not the only one, that allows a person to view the wildlife from an elevated walkway or watch the sunset in the evening, launch a kayak into one of the best tidal lake fishing spots on the gulf coast or drive your vehicle to within yards of the best bay fishing in Texas.
On Saturday April 28th please join me, Joe Wiatt, and others that love Port O Connor and its environs to support the cleanup of Boggy. There is a lack of respect or understanding for preservation of this wonderful gift of eighty acres given to Calhoun County by Dominion Oil Company. We the residents of Port O’Connor can make a difference by spreading the word as a community to reverse this abuse. Boggy is not for dumping trash, animal and fish carcasses, spent ammunition cartridges; it is rather to enjoy the beauty as a Nature Park and to protect this jewel for the future residents and visitors of our rural community.
Precinct 4, Commissioner Kenny Finster will be supporting the cleanup effort with Calhoun County Equipment and bags. We will meet at the elevated nature walk at 8:30 a.m. Bring drinking water and gloves.
BOGGY NATURE PARK NEWS: To assist our fellow neighbors and visitors to Boggy Nature Park in keeping the park free of trash we have installed trash cans like we installed in King Fisher Park, Little Jetties and the Public Boat Launch that will be emptied weekly and appropriate park signs reminding visitors to use the trash facilities or “Pack Out What You Pack In”.
KING FISHER PARK NEWS: High Intensity green fishing lights will be coming in a few weeks, purchased by the Port O’Connor Chamber of Commerce as enhancement to the King Fisher Pier will be installed at the T-Head and will shine downward to the water with no annoyance to residences or users of the park. Again, trash is an issue on the Pier. We will remind the public by asking with appropriate signage to “Pack Out What You Pack In” assisting our county government in maintaining our public treasures.
