It's a pleasant drive south for 2 hours to the cost. Agricultural and hunting, fishing and shooting territory here. Corpus is a huge industrial city with many refineries but we shoot through, over the bridge to the 18 mile beach of North Padre Island, the Texas 'riviera'. It's sunny and hot so we are glad the wind is blowing. But we're told this wind has stopped fishing in these parts over the last while, bringing loads of seaweed to mar the beautiful undeveloped beaches.
This is summer home territory for the monied. Clearly there are some enormous mansions on inlets with their enormous boats parked on their private piers - we expected no less of Texas!
The Pioneer RV park is well run, right on the beach, but we get parked on a nice spot looking over a small lake. It is seabird and ornithologists paradise here, on the two main flyways between Canada and Central/South America. Very popular with birders.
We have our own picnic table behind wind break and BBQ shelf, great for Ted's back, which is playing up again. Not sure if it's the humidity, his arthritis, or all of the above. WE plan to stay and veg out here for the rest of the week. They got 10cm of snow in North Dakota today, piles are still 6ft high, so we are not keen to head back up the east side of the Rockies any time soon. All the snowbirds are leaving here and after spring break, it's a breeze to find good RV parking now.
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