We weren’t sure if we’d head to Corpus Christi or Austin. Yes it should’ve been an easy choice…but do you know the number of times I’ve gone on or googled Corpus Christi School and ended up with something from Corpus Christi. Texas??? So a drive through at least seemed necessary. Plus we had been also wanting to check out Padre Island. We have been paying taxes on land Edwin inherited with his siblings from his dad. The land is on South Padre Island and although taxes have been very little we have been curious to go check out what this property is all about. Anyway, Corpus Christi was basically on the way so….we had fun with our personal double entendres
We have a leak in the shower somewhere that we found out when we’re all taking showers after leaving Big Bend, so Edwin dropped off me and girls to walk to the aquarium. We had fun going inside the few beach stores open this time of year. It was so hot and muggy, and everyone was telling me this was cold…for here. If did feel nice to wear shorts for a change but it’s always surreal to have it this warm being as overcast as it was.
Across the aquarium is the USS Le I grin turned museum. Which we did not go into but we took pictures for Edwin and Tucker 🙂
Isabella keeps saying “I’d rather be in Hawaii” ….so here you go.
Ok, Corpus Christi Texas our of my system. The amount of oil refineries here are pretty intense. The smell even more so and smells generally do not bother me.
Heading across the bridge to South Padre Island. It was quite a detour to get down here but we figured when would we come back to this area???
We had a map, plot number, and didn’t really know what to expect. We found a real estate agent that could hopefully direct us to the right “development”. Frank also bought property there years ago as an investment so he knew the general area, which was great. What he also niceness us about was we wouldn’t be able to access the property easily… The road ends about 15 miles before the development. We knew you could drive and camp directly on the beach, but we also quickly realized that would be hard pressed with our vehicle….well not possible without getting stuck. Well we’d come all this way…it was a 3 hour drive from Corpus Christi…so now what.
It was too late to rent a Jeep or truck and make it worthwhile do we drove to the end of the road just for kicks.
We asked this guy if we can camp on the side of the road for free. He shines his long dreadlocked smile and replied in his French-Canadian accent. “You sure can brah, I’ve been here for 3 months already. I come here every year for about 3-5 months. But don’t stay down here because the spring breakers like to come to the end of the road abc they’re loud”. Thanks for the tip brah.
We decided to stay another day to attempt to see what this property is all about, But we’ll do that tomorrow. For the rest of the day we enjoyed being on a beach, collecting shells, and playing catch. First time seeing the Gulf of Mexico which was pretty cool. But it was disorienting seeing the sun NOT set over the ocean.
