Pink Dolphin Monument
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Pink Dolphin Monument is a historic site in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 1 m. Rattlesnake Mound stands 2 m to the west-southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is R.A. Apffel Park (East Beach), a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Texas Independence Trail passes 2.8 miles off. 2 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
Pink Dolphin Monument is a public monument in R.A. Apffel Park/East Beach on Galveston Island, Texas. Inaugurated on July 25, 2014, the monument is dedicated to celebrating gender and sexual minority communities. It is the first monument dedicated to gender and sexual minorities in the southern United States.
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Wikidata Q18152089, matched on coordinates and name (122 m apart).
What the record says
- Material
- sandstone
- Inscription
- The path that led you here through giant gold headdresses shaking in the wind below a long calligraphy of stars finds you standing in R.A. Apffel Park lit by dreams of dolphins rising pink arches in the dark
What to expect
How to reach it
- 2.8 mi off the Texas Independence Trail
Named places within 25 miles
- R.A. Apffel Park (East Beach): 0.0 mi
- R.A. Apffel Park: 0.3 mi
- Big Reef Nature Park: 0.4 mi
- Lindale Little League Park: 2.4 mi
- Lindale Park: 2.5 mi
- Galveston Island: 2.3 mi
- Galveston, C. S. A.: 2.6 mi
- Galveston: Gateway to Texas: 2.6 mi
- Galveston Quarantine Stations: 2.6 mi
- SS Selma: 2.7 mi
- Sail of USS Tautog: 2.6 mi
- Conning Tower of USS Carp: 2.6 mi
- USS Cavalla: 2.7 mi
- USS Stewart: 2.7 mi
- Dolphin Tree Sculpture: 3.3 mi
- East Beach: 0.3 mi
- East Beach: 1.4 mi
- Stewart Beach: 2.5 mi
- Stewart Beach Park: 2.6 mi
- Porretto Beach: 3.0 mi
- Galveston Historic Seaport: 3.2 mi
- Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig Museum: 3.6 mi
- Galveston County Historical Museum: 3.7 mi
- Texas Seaport Museum: 3.8 mi
- 1859 Saint Josephs Church Museum: 3.9 mi
- East End Lagoon Nature Perserve: 0.7 mi
- Bolivar Flats Shorebird Sanctuary: 3.2 mi
- Horseshoe Marsh Bird Sanctuary: 3.7 mi
- Lafitte's Cove Nature Preserve: 14.3 mi
- Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge: 20.6 mi
- Gleaves T. James Rose Garden: 3.0 mi
- Harris Garden: 4.0 mi
- Carol's Garden: 4.2 mi
- Oleander Garden Park: 4.2 mi
- Galveston Garden Club: 4.9 mi
- Bolivar Point: 3.0 mi
- "Grandmother Reading to Her Grandchildren" Tree Sculpture: 3.2 mi
- Mary Moody Northern Ampitheater: 15.8 mi
- Rattlesnake Mound: 24.3 mi
- Red Bluff: 24.0 mi
- Red Bluff: 24.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Pink Dolphin Monument. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rattlesnake Mound | WSW 249° | 2 m | 24.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:24 | 18:59 | 19:31 |
| June solstice | 06:21 | 19:47 | 20:22 |
| September equinox | 07:08 | 18:46 | 19:17 |
| December solstice | 07:10 | 16:50 | 17:26 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Oct–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 56 | 58 | 64 | 69 | 78 | 83 | 85 | 85 | 82 | 74 | 65 | 58 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Galveston, 4 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/9146793145
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