Today is it on to Padre Island National Seashore. Except for the northern tip, the park is the whole island. It is 65 miles long and about a half a mile wide. (104 by .8 km). Long and skinny. The only roadway is the beach which was mostly very hard packed sand.
Only 4-wheel drive vehicles are allowed after the first 5 miles, and the park makes it clear they will not rescue any stuck vehicles. Lots of interesting stuff has washed ashore - like mooring buoys, channel markers, and oil drums. They grow them big in Texas.
Speed limit on the island is 25 mph, which means it would take forever to get to the far end. Today there was only a handful of fishermen, so we made good time and got to the very end, where the channel cuts through.
At the end, there were thousands of shells, and portugese man-o’war.
Afterwards, George spent 2 hours trying to get the sand out of the jeep!!
