Bahia Quotes

(On working with Penelope Cruz in "Woman On Top"): "I can`t say enough nice things about her. She is amazing. You would think, looking at her, "Well, she can`t be smart, funny, and a good actress," but she is all these things and more. She`s great at imitations, dancing, partying. And she`s a great person, too. She doesn`t do it for show. One day when we were shooting in Pellerinho, a small town in Bahia, Brazil, we`re hanging out on a street corner and there`s this little boy who`s dirty, dressed in rags, who is begging. She takes him by the hand and walks him to a sandwich shop and buys him two roast beef sandwiches. There`s no one around, writing an article about her, this is just Penelope being herself."

The next step is getting the internal channels dug to get Bahia Grande to connect with Laguna Larga and Little Laguna Madre and then have a large channel dug on Brownsville Navigation District property.

All these are linked to the World Wide Web, so I can be in my office and look and see what the conditions are out at Bahia Grande by accessing lighthouse.tamucc.edu,

We have four monitoring stations here at Bahia Grande, ... The land based station is primarily meteorological and it measures wind speed, wind direction, temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity and soon we hope to install a rain gauge.