Texas Coral Reefs (Volume 13) (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)

This book would do beautiful duty as a coffee table book for those who just want great photographs of marine life. However, it doesn't stop there. It also covers the wide variety of life forms found in the reefs of the Gulf Coast, mostly off the Texas coast, but it also covers the Stetson and Sonnier Banks off the coast of Louisiana. The history of the formation and discovery of these unusual reefs, and how they became some of the first National Marine Sanctuaries also merits a few pages. The writing is clear enough to satisfy marine hobbyists or aquarists, but technical enough to satisfy marine scientists.

The reefs off of the Texas coast are a treasure and Jesse gives us fantastic look at them in both pictures and words. I have dived the banks many times and this book makes me appreciate them all the more.

Really love the beautiful pictures. Book is well made too.

Beautiful Texas Coral Reefs book!!!! Giving as a birthday present to a friend that is going to be building a beach house on Crystal Beach in Texas.