Bayou Vista, Texas "Where living on the water is a way of life", Bayou Vista, Texas Where living on the water is the way of life. Homes are located on canals, which makes fishing & boating easy. The City of Bayou Vista is a single-family, residential waterfront community developed along a series of twelve (12) dredged canals which provide access to Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Our residents can fish or crab from their docks or fish from their boat in Galveston Bay.