There was a community nearby the Galveston Island State Park where we were camped called Jamaica Beach.  I thought it was pretty cool because all of the water channels that were made there and how some of the homes were built over the water.  Pretty much all the homes it the area had the living quarters on the second level and the ground level was used as a garage or a boathouse.  This is for protection against storms and storm surges.

The channels of Jamaica Beach

Homes on stilts.