South Padre Island is renown for the beach: 35 miles of fine-grain sand on the Gulf of Mexico.
It's been a while since we've done a morning beach walk - time to change that. Leaving our island, we had a small delay while we waited for a doubled-up barge to go through the bridge...
A view from the 2 1/2 mile long Queen Isabela Causeway, leading to the island...
Our favorite place to start a beach walk is from Isla Blanca Park, at the south tip of the island...
For families who want to picnic in the park, there is a huge pavillion, covered with sun screen material...
The tide is high this morning, but there is plenty of beach...
A squadron of pelicans moving from north to south...
Back to the beach...
The remains of a sand castle from yesterday...
Looking out into the Gulf...
Looking south, the pelicans are coming back...
Sandpipers finding breakfast where the water laps up on the shore...
We decided to make a morning of it and stopped at The Palms (hotel and restaurant) for a breakfast with some ambiance...
The food was good, the sound of the surf was nice; the beach is right on the other side of the greenery (helps prevent beach erosion).
Heading back home, some views of the Laguna Madre (the bay), looking north...
Coming to Port Isabel, on the east side of the causeway...
And, we still have the rest of the day. :-)
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