The Rockport-Fulton Chamber of Commerce has created an official GeoTour. Come Find Yourself in Rockport-Fulton for beachcombing, fishing, art, fun, birdwatching, kayaking, museums, history, seafood and more! More than 40 geocaches and bonus geocaches have been hidden in special places throughout the Rockport-Fulton area. Use your geocaching app or GPS to go on an adventure through our peninsula on the beautiful coast of Texas! Take pictures and post to social media using the hashtag #FindYourselfinRockportFulton #RFGeoTour #GeoTour.
"Cultural Interface," is a series of nine-foot-tall sculptures depicting the first meeting between Europeans and the Karankawa people. The Karankawa Indians are an American Indian cultural group whose traditional homelands are located along Texas’s Gulf Coast from Galveston Bay southwestwardly to Corpus Christi Bay.
Artist’s Statement: “Cultural Interface”
By Steve Russell
" Growing up in Rockport, Texas, I was fascinated by the stories I read about the early inhabitants of the Live Oak Peninsula – the indigenous Native Americans often referred to locally as the Karankawa Indians. I often imagined what their life was like as they paddled their dugout canoes in the shallow bays, fishing, gathering shellfish and turtles, and living off the land."
" I was equally mesmerized by stories of the early Spanish and French explorers and settlers who sailed the oceans to discover new lands and peoples. Pirates, conquistadors, and ship captains also filled my dreams as I thought about what it must have been like to sail away from family and country on adventurous and dangerous voyages."
" I’m not one of those artists who waxes poetic about symbols, meanings and metaphors in my work, nor do I have a political position to express artistically. I hope that each viewer will bring their own experience and viewpoint to experiencing what I’ve created. With “Cultural Interface,” my intent is to transport the viewer to a moment in time and allow them to reflect on the beauty of the Little Bay surrounding the sculptures…the sky and water and landscape. And, to imagine another time in our history and consider that interaction or interface in relation to our current lives and times."
For more information on the Karankawa Indians, visit our cache https://coord.info/GCA3XH1 FP Series #942 - Karankawa
To claim this Virtaul cache, you must count the number of large bolders surrounding the sculptures and holding in the smaller rocks. Send your answers via email to receive confirmation for postiing your Found It log. That answer is also the code for your GeoTour Passport.
Virtual Rewards 4.0 - 2024-2025
This Virtual Cache is part of a limited release of Virtuals created between January 17, 2024 and January 17, 2025. Only 4,000 cache owners were given the opportunity to hide a Virtual Cache. Learn more about Virtual Rewards 4.0 on the Geocaching Blog.