The latest issue of Southern Living Magazine is on the stands and there you will find an article about SPI and a HUGE photo of the SoB Sand Castle Wizards. Click here to see the picture sized large. This issue will be available through Aug.

"My name is Liz the (boy) iguana, and me and my little sister "Duke" pulled a fast one on our parents, Pam and Steve. We had big fun out and about but are ready to go home now (we live on Dolphin). We were recently spotted on Red Snapper. We like flowers and are totally harmless (though we like to think we are scary-looking!) If you see us, please call 761-6104 -- thanks!"

"Here is Nathan's Birthday cake we made for him. We even have shots of him standing on top! (not with the marine flares burning though)
-photo and report by Dennis Barrett

This 333-pound, 13 feet, 2 1/2-inch common thresher shark set a new record, beating the old record of 133 pounds set in 1981. The fish had a body measuring 6 feet with the huge sweeping tail accounting for the rest of the length. Posing with the beast is Captain Robert Dunkin (standing left), deckhands Cliff Jones (center) and Mike Hebrank (kneeling), and angler Robert Allen Robinson (right) of Port Isabel, Texas. The shark was caught on May 2, 2002 aboard the Osprey II out of the Sea Ranch Fishing Pier (Osprey Fishing Trips) on South Padre Island, Texas.
(Not to worry though it was caught 2 1/2 hours off shore in deep water.)

Photo: Courtesy of Captain Robert Dunkin, with thanks to Michael Gonzalez of Naturally's Beach House Suites for passing it on.