Waves lap against a piece of driftwood washed ashore a beach on the north end of Galveston Island, Texas, as ships transit Bolivar Roads in the background.
Dawn opens on the north jetty at the entrance to Galveston Bay and the Houston Ship Channel, Texas.
The battleship USS Texas, nicknamed “The Mighty T”, sits in her berth as a museum ship near Houston.
Tankers await their turn to enter the Port of Houston as the sun rises over the Gulf of Mexico just off the shore of Galveston, Texas.
The USS Texas, commissioned in 1914, saw action in both World Wars, including D-Day and at Iwo Jima. After being decommissioned in 1947, she was permanently moored adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel near the San Jacinto Monument to act as a museum ship.