South Padre Island, Texas February 13th to 17th

 

The weather wasn’t cooperating, so we parked at Tom and Jerry’s Pub parking lot which is a Harvest Host site. 

We were very cozy, lol.

You can’t control the weather and we originally had planned on 6 nights camping on the beach., but the wind was quite strong and there were rip tide warnings. That didn’t stop us from having fun, but it did limit our experiences.  Or did it?

 

Sand blowing across the road. 

Ocean is an ocean and Laureen is happy on any beach. 

 

Valentine’s day saw us biking along the beach and thankfully the wind died down and no rip tide warnings.

Reading about Texas Rangers on the Texan beach.  

The weather started to turn in our favor.  We packed up trailers and drove 5 minutes to the entrance to Beach Access 5 and claimed our site on the beach. 

 

 

Our night view. The moon is making the waves sparkle. 

Our morning view. 

 Paradise. 

Wednesday, February 16th brought on more winds and rip tides.  We packed up as quickly as we could in the morning and got off the beach before the tide got too high and we would be stuck.  Not much beach left around 10:30 am. 

We went to a campground called Andy Bowie. There were only dry sites left so we had to park in another parking lot taht they use for day use. When we went to let out the slide on left side of the trailer, (fireplace, stove fridge side) a strand from the slide cable snapped and jammed in the pulley.  

 

Now, here we sit with the slide partially out waiting for Forest River mobile repair service to come from Corpus Christi, Texas. Turns out they’re too busy to travel that far so Mark got the parts from a RV repair shop in the Brownsville area and him and Vince fixed it.  Those 2 never fail to amaze me.  ❤

While the boys were working, Kim and Laureen went to see the rescue turtles.  It’s quite amazing what Sea Turtle Inc. has achieved. 

Prosthetic to help a turtle who was attacked by a shark and was left with only 1 flipper. 

This guy was hurt by a boat propeller and now has weights on his back to keep him buoyant. 

 

We enjoyed South Padre Island very much.  Definitely a place to come back to visit, but not retire.