March 7 Palacios, Port Lavaca, Magnolia Beach, Indianola...Wednesday I looked around Port Lavaca and found the MacDonalds , SuperWalmart and Sams on Hwy 35 East of the Hwy 87/ Hwy 35 intersection, also several other stores. The actual town of Port Lavaca doesn’t really have much to look at and if I need anything it will be on the Hwy 35 “bypass”. I drove over to Palacios to check out the City by the sea museum. It wasn’t a bad museum and a lot of work had obviously been put into it but I can’t say it is worth a 46 mile roundtrip detour. There is supposed to be a half scale replica of La Salle’s shipwrecked ship “La Belle”, at Palacios but I forgot to ask about it at the museum and they didn’t mention
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