Indianola, on the shore of Matagorda Bay near Port Lavaca, Texas, USA was the first photo stop of my Photo Odyssey's fifth winter tour, which we spent in the US state of Texas, and more specifically, along the Texas Gulf Coast for most of the winter.

We setup camp 12 miles southeat of Port Lavaca in an area called Powderhorn, just around the corner of Powderhorn Lake from Indianola, Texas, which at one time in the late 1800s was one of the major gulf ports of Texas, but after being virtually destroyed twice by hurricanes during that same period of the century, the town was abandoned. The land it was on has been eroded by storms to the point it's now just a narrow strip of habitable land between Matagorda Bay on the Gulf side and wetlands on the mainland side and at the end of which is a small fishing village. What remains of Indianola is today classified as a ghost town, although it's actually inhabited by a few stalwart souls. None of the original structures remain on the original town site, since most of it is now underwater, but some of the those old original structures were moved inland and do still exist.