Hurricane Ike · September 26, 2008

Walking the Pirates Beach Shoreline

A photographic walk along the beach two weeks after Hurricane Ike made landfall on Galveston Island.

Field notes

Pirates Beach
Galveston

Adrian and I walked most of the shoreline along Pirates Beach.

The damage was obvious, and we were deeply saddened by the terrible condition of some very fine homes. These photographs also document the significant beachfront erosion left by the storm.

49 photographs

Pirates Beach shoreline after Hurricane Ike, photograph 1 of 49
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