On January 26, we drove to Port O'Connor with Carter and Cheryl Taylor. We took a charter boat out to the site of La Belle , a ship that belonged to the explorer La Salle. A cofferdam was built around the site, and the water was pumped out.
Archeologists can therefore excavate the site on dry land.
The water is 12 feet deep around the site. An archeologist sifts through a box of round shot. The powder kegs to the right were well preserved under the silt and sand. This home stands in isolation on Matagorda peninsula, just a few miles from the La Belle site.