Science and Spanish Club Profiles Matagorda Beach and Sand Dunes

How Did the Message In a Bottle Get to Matagorda Beach?

Students Say "Boo To Drugs"

The Tidehaven Intermediate Science & Spanish Club made their annual winter trip to Matagorda Beach to do the second of three sand dune and beach profiles for the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology. Every fall, winter, and spring the Science & Spanish Club does a sand dune and beach profile with the help of the Lower Colorado River Authority employees. Pictured are Tidehaven Intermediate students surveying the height and slope of the sand dunes of Matagorda Beach on Saturday, February 7, 2009.

During the Rice Festival on October 18, Tidehaven Intermediate School's Spanish & Science Club members put the finishing touches on the Gulf of Mexico display showing the Gulf Stream and the various islands and countries that border the Gulf of Mexico. This display is part of the Lower Colorado River Authority's project "Message in a Bottle." A message in a bottle was found April 2007 during the adopt-a-beach cleanup that was part of a class project from Puerto Rico. This display shows the path the bottle traveled along the Gulf Stream from Puerto Rico to Matagorda Beach.

Tidehaven Intermediate students and faculty dressed in Halloween costumes on the last day of Red Ribbon Week to say "Boo To Drugs".