Texas Floating Classroom

07/04/2024

Howdy Y'all Tomorrow at 9 AM we are doing a friends trip for the 4th weekend, to crazy today out there! If anyone wants to go for a boat ride before the hurricane parties start give either Capt. Whit or me a call or text and we will see you there in the morning :) 361 717 4176

06/17/2024

These are our sea horses. This is about a 3 minute video of a few clips strung together

05/16/2024

Another amazing group from Ingleside! Seeing them gathered around the touch tank laughing and looking at the animals is maybe the best thing ever :)

05/14/2024

This is a group from ingleside!!!!! They love them some blue crabs!

03/30/2024

This is Ben. This is ben's new pet blue crab. He was so enamored of this crab we talked to his mom and they set up a salt water tank for this crab. We have never let a student take home one of our animals but we made an exception for Ben. When a student expresses this much interest in an animal you have to foster that! Ben and mom, we hope this leads to a life long love of crabs!

03/09/2024

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03/05/2024

Its spring and the schedule is starting to fill up. Be sure to get the dates you need as we move into and past spring break! We have a new much larger monitor and a new camera for the microscope to feed it! Plankton has never looked so good :)

12/07/2023

12/07/2023

We have decided to expand the program. We added the Isla sailing catamaran. It has been a cg inspected vessel for about 20 passengers. We are making youtube videos as we work on it and get it ready!

10/26/2023

This mornings happy students from Port Lavaca :) The net is out and they are excited!

10/26/2023

We have control over the page again!!! Look forward to everything we used to post and more! We are very excited!

10/26/2023

This is a test post to see if it really happens!

09/16/2021

We are looking for a deck hand for the coming season and beyond. Experience is not needed. We can train the right person. Biology would be a plus.

If you are or know someone who might be interested call Capt. Whitney at 361 717 4176

This would be especially good for someone who is interested in being a captain to acquire sea time or a Captain needing to stay current.

05/12/2021

Beautiful delicious swimmers. That's the translation of their scientific name.

05/07/2021

For the safety of the animals we have students wash their hands before touching the animals. Sunscreen, lotion and hand sanitizer are all bad for the fish!

04/29/2021

Sea horses are by far the most popular visitors that we bring to schools!

04/28/2021

Capt. Whitney is showing students in Rockport sea horses!

04/21/2021

Crain Elementary School today with the traveling touch tank. Nothing can stop students from experiencing sea life!

01/09/2021

Hello and we miss everyone!!! A quick update on the Archimedes. Since we dont have trips we are taking our time in the boat yard.

The Coast Guard finally gave us approval to finish, replace the railing and paint over the repairs, only three small repairs thankfully! We hired a professional to strip off all the bottom paint to bare glass and repaint the bottom. We are adding 8 gallons of new bottom paint of different types. This will be hard or non ablative paint. The boat had more than 1/4 inch build up. It will also be faster and more fuel efficient.
We are also taking this time to upgrade the steering and electronics. New steering heads and fittings as well as control cables and lots of new grease. New jack plates, for skinny water ;)
A new networked 7 inch screen and sonar, viewable by students. We will also be putting a screen on the back deck accessible to students. This system monitors everything. The motors feed data into it as well as gps and eventually radar, which we dont have yet. It even has a full sound system built in with mic inputs for adding narration. It also allows monitoring from my phone from anywhere.
With new motors and everything else the boat will be completely renewed and updated when it hits the water again.

09/17/2020

Need a good laugh? Scroll through these photos!

08/04/2020

07/26/2020

The Aquarium dock is completely destroyed. We tied pieces of the dock to the edge to use as fenders. The best we could do is tie the boat to the fence. Now all we can do is hope the damage is minimal. Cross your collective fingers!

03/12/2020

Go Bay RATS!!!

Texas Sea Grant (TXSG) is proud to have sponsored the San Antonio Bay Removing Abandoned Traps program. Organized by the San Antonio Bay Partnership (SABP), ...

02/19/2020

We had so much fun introducing our salt water friends to students up river in San Antonio!! Our goal is always for students to fall in love with these critters so that they will protect them by being aware of what goes into the river and eventually into the sea. Thank you San Antonio River Foundation!!!

01/18/2020