Live Webcams in Galveston

Galveston, the barrier-island port an hour south of Houston, is a Gulf beach town with a Victorian past, and the live webcams in Galveston reach somewhere colder than either: the chilled Antarctic habitat of its glass aquarium pyramid, where king, gentoo, rockhopper, chinstrap and macaroni penguins waddle, swim and squabble around the clock, beside the seawall and the beaches outside. It is the island's most reliable view, unbothered by the Gulf weather outside. Galveston keeps Central Time, UTC−6 and UTC−5 in summer; the colony is liveliest at feeding times through the American day, which is a European afternoon and evening. The seawall that guards the island was begun after the hurricane of 1900, the deadliest natural disaster in United States history, and now runs some ten miles along the Gulf. March to May and October to November are the pleasant months; the penguins keep the same weather all year.