Texas beaches reopen after COVID-19 closures

https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/galveston-beaches-reopen-with-covid-19-recommendations-in-place/285-78edf926-ba08-4d56-a497-db3667c6b62a

Texas beaches reopened on the first day of May as the fight to contain COVID-19 continued.  Recommendations were in place to help keep things in check.  And tourism officials were ready to get things moving again, to some degree.  Covering the reopening provided my photographer and me a chance to get out and about for the first time in a while.  We spent a gorgeous day on Galveston Island.  And beach visitors wasted no time hitting the surf and sand.  Time will tell if the decision to reopen the beaches was too soon.