Yes & yes...land is super flat & fertile, and you are in a fishing town for sure. The little Guadalupe river is really beautiful upstream and quite popular for tubing in the Summer. The rains on the Gulf coastal plains should always be respected, many lives lost every year to the run offs that you experienced in Victoria.
Pete I'd suggest you take time if you haven't already and visit the "Hill country" just North of where you're at, neat little towns with things to see and do even in the Winter months.
My farms about 40 miles north of Rockport, though I actually live in S.W. Oklahoma really rolling and hilly country...fun terrain in this part of Indian Territory to bike through on the back roads. Rick C.