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GALVESTON
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Part genteel Southern belle, part sunburned beach bunny: Galveston Island is Houston's fa-
vorite playmate. The old gal took a pretty severe beating by Hurricane Ike in 2008, but
she's battled back. Sitting on a barrier island near the northern end of a 600 mile-long
Texas coastline, Galveston may not have the state's best beaches, but nowhere else in-state
will you find such sun-drenched historic charms.
This sandy playground is only 51 miles southwest of downtown Houston. Traveling fur-
ther south from Galveston, you can skirt the coast 215 miles to Corpus Christi (see boxed
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. To the north the Galveston-Port Bolivar Ferry, an attraction in itself, takes
you to the isolated Bolivar Peninsula.
