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Feb 23, 20212 min read

Aerial Drone Photography Services in Rockport Fulton Texas

Updated: Apr 27, 2023


If you are looking for aerial drone photography services in or around Rockport Texas the FAA-certified pilots at RockportFulton.com can make it happen.


You can visit this website and make an appointment Aerial Drone Photography Services - Aerial Photographer (business.site)



Aerial Drone Photography is a professional drone service provider that specializes in capturing stunning aerial footage and photographs. We provide high-quality aerial photography services for events, real estate, construction, and more. Our team of experienced pilots and photographers are fully licensed and insured to operate drones. Contact us today to schedule a shoot and take your content to new heights!



We provide aerial drone photography & Videography around the Rockport Texas area.


Not only can we go and produce high-resolution photography and videography but we can process your images or videos for marketing purposes.





FAA Part 107 Certified Pilots

Even though people have access to drone technology it is illegal in the United States to produce images or videos for commercial intent without an FAA Part 107 license.


In these modern times, real estate agents are more in need of drone pictures or videos than ever before of their properties to host on websites or listings.


Agents and brokers will need to seek out an experienced commercially licensed drone pilot to take their aerial images and/or video of a property. These aerial shots can help make a property extra attractive and make it easier to view remotely on the internet, especially if it's a bigger house or property.


In addition to aerial snapshots and videos, high-tech drones can consist of capturing sufficient visible data to create a 3D or ortho-mosaic map of a property. Potential consumers can use those maps to familiarize themselves with them as they consider the purchase.



Here are some of the most common kinds of properties drone pilots are hired to document:

Residential real property: Homes, housing traits, and communities Commercial actual estate: Malls, business complexes, golf Courses, Hotels Large areas of land: Big estates, golfing courses, ranches, and farms .

We can come out with a capture high-resolution video or photography using the latest Drone Technology. Whether you need a special event documented or need some great marketing materials we have the tools to make it happen.

Here is a sample of our video work.




We also house a large archive of photos and video footage from around Aransas County. Check out our photo gallery page:


Our pilots are FAA-certified commercial-grade experts with several years of flight time and experience in videography techniques.




Hyperlaps video at Rockport Beach Park

We also employ the latest photography equipment to really make your project stand out!

VR 360 photography and video

High Definition (HD) 4k imagery full stabilization video resolution.


Not only can we help you stand out but we can help get the word out as well. We currently get around 10,000 to 15,000 monthly visitors to our website RockportFulton.com as well as over 35,000 organic followers on our facebook.com/RockportFulton fan page.

Facebook Fan Page

Give us a call at 424-634-2683 or email us at Info@RockportFulton.com to schedule an appointment to see what we can do to help out.

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Writer's pictureRockportFulton
Feb 19, 20214 min read

Key Allegro Island Featured

Updated: Jun 22, 2022

Key Allegro Island

Drone Photography of Key Allegro Island February 2021

Key Allegro Island is located in the beautiful city of Rockport, Texas, and is one of Aransas Counties most beautiful Canal front communities. The island was formerly known as Frandolig Point or "Nine Mile Point"

Frandolig Point was a triangular peninsula nine miles south of the northernmost part of Live Oak Peninsula that in 1962 became known as Key Allegro.

The Frandolig name came from the family who lived there from the 1870s through the early 1900s. Franz Joseph Frandolig (1816 – 1907) was born in Austro-Hungary at a time when nationalism was on the rise in Europe. When he was nineteen, he left Europe probably to avoid military service or to seek a better life in Texas. Hannah Sara Schwander was born in Switzerland in 1836. She entered the U.S. at New Orleans after a journey from Le Havre, France in 1852. Hannah and Franz married in 1854 in Victoria County.


Frandolig was known as a horse wrangler. He broke and sold horses to General Zachary Taylor for the Mexican War (1845-48). Records show that Franz claimed 160 acres on Papalote Creek in Bee County (1858-1868). He delivered cotton to Mexico during the Civil War and served in the military under General Bee in 1861.


Later he delivered cattle to the Cushman packery that was located on what became Frandolig Point/Key Allegro. When Cushman vacated the property in 1870s, Frandolig moved his family to that location. With his family, he ran a farm, salt works and boat yard. They had an extensive fig orchard as well as a vineyard from which they sold wine by the barrel. In 1903 Franz Frandolig sold the property and moved to Port Aransas where his wife died in April of that year. Franz died in 1907 at Tarpon (now Port Aransas). They had nine children. Descendants of the Frandoligs remain in the area.

Frandolig Island, or “happy isle”, was purchased in the 1870s. Frandolig sold the island in 1900 for $3,500. The island became a marshy overgrown natural habitat and was named “Nine Mile Point”.

Old Key Allegro Photo

As early as 1954, the Aransas County Navigation District had developed a long-range plan, which included Frandolig Island. A bond issue of $415,000 was passed by voters so that Fulton Harbor could be completed, improvements could be made to Rockport Harbor, an industrial harbor at the Cove south of Rockport (which became Cove Harbor) could be developed and facilities in the Little Bay area and on Frandolig Island could be addressed.


In 1955, the ACND considered leasing Frandolig Island to develop the island into a “family type resort” at the cost of approximately $5 million. This initial $5 million cost would be in addition to the leasing costs. At this time, Frandolig Island was the only natural sandy beach in this area. Future planned amenities included a dock for charter and pleasure boats, a golf course, skeet range, teenage yacht club, saltwater pool, and babysitters so that “vacation is painless”, Dad could fish; mom could rest; kids could be entertained.


In this plan, the Navigation District required that there be free public access to and use of the beaches along the island, retention by the District of a portion of the island frontage along Little Bay, work to begin within one year and completed within three years with a minimum expenditure of $3 million to develop a high type of recreation resort that would appeal to many groups. A docking facility for pleasure boats was also to be available.


By June 9, 1956, progress was being noted; dredging of Rockport Harbor had begun, a plan for Cove Harbor was being developed based on the terrain and Frandolig island was purchased by the ACND to protect their investment and prevent the island from falling into “other hands”. Frandolig island was to provide a fourth harbor costing the district nothing due to the planned leases being funded.

As we know now, this plan failed to be implemented, but another concept was on the horizon.

Today Key Allegro Island is a exclusive Texas paradise featuring some of the best homes in the area. The Island has both full time residents as well as fulltime vacation rental homes. The canals feature a deep water depth for larger boats and quick access to both little bay and Aransas Bay.

The Island featured a fully equipped Marina area as well as an aquatic center that was destroyed during Hurricane Harvey as well as a Bar and water side restaurant. Plans are currently in the works to rebuild the Marina, and Restaurant.

Damaged Key Allegro Marina

4th of July boat party off Key Allegro Island sandbar in Little Bay

If you would like to learn more about Key Allegro’s history please read our informative history page at History of Aransas County | Rockport Texas (rockportfulton.com)


or visit the History Center for Aransas County at the link below.

The History Center for Aransas County features local archives of the area.

You can also visit the Key Allegro Home Owners Association for more information if you would like to relocate or vacation.

Key Allegro Island Community Information Center

You can also visit the Key Allegro Real-Estate Company's website for more information on the Islands History.

If you would like to learn more about Rockport Fulton and the Aransas County area be sure to like our page on Facebook at Facebook.com/RockportFulton or visit our front page at RockportFulton.com.

find out more about Key Allegro Island, please check out: RockportFulton.com

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Feb 12, 20214 min read

The Big Tree

Updated: Jan 4, 2023

The “Big Tree”, Is located in Aransas County on the Lamar Peninsula near the town of Rockport, Texas. It is considered one of the most famous live oaks in the world after being named “Texas State Champion Virginia Live Oak” (Quercus virginianus) in 1969. The “Big Tree” is still thought to be one of the largest live oak specimens in the United States.


The Big Tree in Lamar, Texas is a beloved local landmark and a must-see destination for visitors to the area. In this post, we'll take a closer look at the history, description, and cultural significance of the Big Tree.


The Big Tree is a beloved local landmark and a symbol of the community's history and culture.


Despite the widespread, historically significant devastation of the surrounding region, the “Big Tree” was relatively unscathed by Hurricane Harvey, a category 4 hurricane that hit Rockport Texas on August 25, 2017



Visiting the “Big Tree” today is easy with available roadside parking. The base of the tree is cordoned off to dissuade climbers, but visitors are nonetheless able to stand below the crown to appreciate the tree’s massive size.


The Big Tree is an impressive sight, with a massive trunk and a canopy that spans over 100 feet. The tree is located in a small park in Lamar, surrounded by a grassy lawn and a wooden fence. Visitors can walk around the tree and marvel at its size, or rest on one of the benches located nearby.


If you would like to visit the big tree here is a map of how to get there:




Map to get to the Big Tree

According to climatologists, the “Big Tree” has survived between forty and fifty major hurricanes, including the most recent, Harvey, and numerous floods, droughts, and wildfires.

The Texas Forest Service estimates the tree to be over 1,000 years old, while other recent estimates place it nearer to 2,000 years old. Also known as Bishop Oak and Lamar Oak, the “Big Tree” is a charter member (#16) of the Live Oak Society and has been the subject of one of Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” cartoons. The “Big Tree” is possibly the oldest extant live oak in the world. It possesses a circumference of over 35 feet and is more than 45 feet tall, while the crown’s spread is 90 feet.



“Record” or “champion” trees are determined by a cumulative measure of their girth, their spread, and their height, however, the near-continuous Gulf breeze limits the height of the “Big Tree”; therefore, there exist many other live oak specimens that are actually taller, but once girth is factored in, that measure makes the “Big Tree” the second-largest live oak in Texas.

The “Big Tree” statistics:

  1. Trunk circumference: 35 feet 1.75 inches or 10.71 meters

  2. Average trunk diameter: 11 feet 2.25 inches or 3.41 meters

  3. Crown spread: 89 feet or 27.1 meters

  4. Height: 44 feet or 13.4 meters

  5. Age: Exact age is unknown – but it is centuries old.



Here is what some of its many visitors have had to say about it:




Google review of The Big Tree by John T. Ferguson ★★★★★ “This is the one of the biggest trees in texas. So it’s really big. it’s really nice to look at. There are whooping cranes around in the area if you’re interested in that. The only thing that I would ding them on is there’s no restroom.”

Google review of The Big Tree by Shirley Roberg ★★★★★ “This was an amazing must see! Pictures and words alone won’t do the trick”


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The RockportFulton.com website is a comprehensive guide to the towns of Rockport and Fulton, Texas. The website provides a wealth of information about the local area, including events, activities, and attractions.



Arial View of the Rockport Texas Waterfront
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Visitors to the website can find information about local festivals, markets, and events, as well as details about local businesses, restaurants, and accommodations. The website also features a calendar of events, so visitors can easily plan their trip and make the most of their time in Rockport and Fulton.


In addition to providing information about the local area.


RockportFulton.com is also a great resource for those who are interested in the history and culture of Rockport and Fulton. The website includes articles and photos that highlight the rich history of the towns and their unique character.


Overall, the RockportFulton.com website is an excellent resource for anyone planning a trip to Rockport and Fulton, or for those who simply want to learn more about these charming coastal towns.



The Town of Fulton Texas at sunset
The Town of Fulton Texas

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