Question about Mosquitoes in Rockport area?? (Portland, Aransas Pass: vacation home, to buy, live)

[ThanksABunch]

I almost moved to Port A last year but ended up deciding to buy a vacation home in the Rockport area instead.

Haven't really started looking yet...but recall my visit to Port A was great except for being eaten alive by skeeters several times. I spent many summers there as a child but I don't recall it being so bad. Probably because kids tolerate all that better. Seems like it was always when we sat outide on the deck in the evening or in any outdoor restaurants on the island. I got tired of spraying myself down each night. Don't like the smell of that stuff!

Was wondering if anyone can tell me how bad skeeters are in Rockport? I would assume it isn't much different than Port A but would love to hear from someone in the know.

Now the key here is that we will be spending a lot of time in Rockport during the fall and winter months..so I'm assuming it isn't as bad then? Hopefully?

Thank you!!

[EarthFirst!]

As you know, Port Aransas is actually on the Gulf coast water and Rockport is just inland 5-6 miles behind the barrier islands and north up the coastline ~8-10 miles. The mosquitos are just as big, just as ravenous, just as painful and just as plentiful in Rockport as anywhere else on the Texas gulf coast.

I visit family in the Port Aransas, Aransas Pass, Rockport and Portland areas several times a year. I have seen no discernible differences in the "skeeter-aggravation quotient" between any of the towns during the warm spring, summer and fall months. The brief cool and cold months of late fall and all winter does have a respite from the bedeviling little critters.

Circa summer 1965, as a favor to a friend, my father moved a family's household belongs from Aransas Pass (~8 miles west of Port Aransas, ~8 miles south of Rockport) to another state. My dad said the local townfolk described the marauding mosquitoes as being so big, "if one landed on a quarter, its toes would stick out over the edges".

A little hyperbole, but very close to the truth!

I hope this helps.